A revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Carole Seymour-Jones was born in Towyn, North Wales and educated at Oxford and Sussex Universities. Her recent biography Painted Shadow- The Life of Vivienne Eliot was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. She lives with her partner in Surrey and London.
indefatigably detailed and even-handed. [Seymour-Jones] has
mastered a great deal of French political life over many
decades
*Literary Review*
excellent ... Seymour-Jones's narrative crackles and pops with
engrossing anecdotes ... a tautly written, riveting book ...
formidable
*The Observer*
As a portrait of marriage - or more accurately of a refusal to
marry - this joint biography is filled with delicious detail, with
nefarious intrigues, trysts, betrayals, and outrageously libertine
behaviour; and for all its scrupulous research and historical
understanding ... it rattles along with the drama of a soap opera
...Massive, lavishly researched and eminently readable,
Seymour-Jones's book is as page-turning as its is scholarly. The
end result is quite dazzling.
*Guardian*
[an] excellent biography
*Independent on Sunday*
This absorbing account traces the trajectory of these twin rockets
with energy and objectivity
*Independent*
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