Adam Brant is a charismatic and successful analyst, until he meets the traumatised but beautiful patient Anne Marie, with whom he falls in love and begins an illicit, passionate affair. The affair leads him to ultimate disgrace via an alcoholic and violent downfall, and her to the end he should have, but did not foresee.
An independent scholar and a former associate editor of Oxford University Press's American National Biography project, John Sugden holds degrees from the Universities of Leeds, Lancaster and Sheffield.