Publisher's Synopsis
The scandalous bestseller about a woman desperate for love... and for the physical release she's never experienced. Back in print for the first time in sixty years!
Jenny Adams fears men...and is disgusted by sex...and yet longs to experience true love and searing, physical bliss. So she gives herself to men in the violent hope that it isn't an empty dream. Through a disasterous marriage and multiple relationships, she desperately searches for a man she can truly love and who can, finally, unlock and satisfy her deepest carnal desires...something she fears is a cruel, unattainable myth. Or is it? Her journey to find out is an unforgettable saga of romance, passion and hope.
This novel, first published in 1950, was one of the books that launched Fawcett's famed Gold Medal line of paperback originals....selling hundreds of thousands of copies over multiple printings throughout the decade. And yet, nothing is known about "Lillian Colter." She doesn't seem to have written a book before or since The Awakening of Jenny, nor did she do any interviews, leading some collectors to suspect "Lillian Colter" was a pseudonym for another author. If so, others argue, why didn't the publisher capitalize on the massive success of this book to churn out more titles under her name? Is Lillian Colter a real author? Did she only write one bestseller, helping to launch a legendary imprint... and then disappear into obscurity? It's a mystery.
