'An incredible, beautifully written story that succeeds not only in giving a powerful insight into the lengths to which some people will go to preserve their very existence, but an absorbing and colourful account of the individuals and events that changed the world in the first half of the twentieth century.' -- Susan Ottaway author Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne 'Temptress, seductress, sexploiter, call her what you will, Moura had espionage running through her veins, and all is revealed in this fascinating account of her mysterious life.' Nigel West, author of Operation Garbo
Deborah McDonald is the author of Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman and The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper: The Evidence Linking James Kenneth Stephen to the Whitechapel Murders. She lives on the Isle of Wight.
Jeremy Dronfield is a writer, biographer and novelist.
'Riveting biography…of [Moura Budberg's] remarkable life…Dangerous
woman, indeed'.
*Independent on Sunday*
‘An extraordinarily complex story based on a fabulous cache of rich
material… the end result really is an example of truth being
stranger than fiction’
*Good Book Guide*
'Hard to go wrong with Moura's combustible life, and the authors
relish her excesses'.
*Independent*
‘McDonald and Dronfield’s summaries of events during the
revolutionary period make a coherent narrative from a
bafflingly complex series of events’
*The Guardian*
‘A rollicking good read’
*Country Life*
‘A thrilling new biography of baroness and double agent Moura
Budberg…. Brave and multi-faceted, a mosaic monument to a mistress
of deceit.’
*Russia Beyond the Headlines*
‘The tale of Baroness Moura Budberg is a splendid
one… entertaining and well-researched.’
*Dr. Mark Galeotti, Clinical Professor of Global Affairs, New York
University*
‘There is an echo of foxy, seductive Scarlett O'Hara about Moura
Budberg’
*Herald*
‘This book could read like a thriller, yet the thorough research
here provides a weightier feast… impressive… alive… a
well-researched and well-ordered biography’
*Spectator*
‘Conjures up a vivid and alluring version of old Russia’
*Mail on Sunday*
‘An astoundingly unbelievable life well retold in this gripping new
biography. Well-written too. The book’s account of the Lockhart
Affair is particularly fascinating, recreating the paranoid,
anti-Western world that was Soviet Russia in the late 19-teens and
early 1920s.’
*Russian Life*
‘[The authors] have done a sterling job of piecing together the
pieces of this mysterious, peripatetic life… they are very clear
about the limits of what can and cannot be known from the extant
evidence’
*Daily Telegraph*
'A fast-paced story of European intrigue, featuring an enigmatic,
strong-willed woman [whose] survival story is
fascinating.'
*Publishers Weekly*
'The authors draw on diaries, correspondence, and newly released
files to create a powerful study that attracts sympathy toward
their subject. It also produces a great snapshot of life in Russia
during the collapse of the czarist regime through the early part of
the Joseph Stalin era.'
*Library Journal*
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