SELKIRK'S ISLAND won the 2001 Whitbread Biography Award and sold over 30,000 copies Diana Souhami is one of our leading biographers This enthralling biography will appeal to fans of Bohemian history, the salonites of the thirties and to anyone who delights in the secret histories of remarkable characters
Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books. She has also written plays for radio and television.
Diana Souhami describes the whole complex relationship well, particularly the poignancy of the final years in the lives of her two Wild Girls.... Pages are crammed with descriptions of exotic characters, their extravagances and eccentricities, the lillies, the pearls, the velvet-lined rooms... - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Selina HastingsFar more intriguing is something that lies outside this story altogether. At the start of each chapter is placed a short passage in itallics, never more than a paragraph or two. Here the author seems to be narrating some of her personal lesbian experiences.... These are fascinating and I sincerely hope Ms Souhami will expand them and produce her own memoir of life as a wild girl. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Selina HastingsDiana Souhami's cunning insertion of occasional vignettes from her own, rather less opulent existence as a modern gay woman enhances our awareness that this book is as much a tribute to lesbian fulfilment as a straightforward chronicle of its subjects' lives. Her skill, not just in garnering detail, but in finding the perfect place for, is unrivalled' - LITERARY REVIEW - Jonathan KeatesNatalie's salon and Romaine's paintings may be no more than cultural footnotes, but their love, in all its tortured resistless grandeur, deserves a kind of immortality. - LITERARY REVIEW - Jonathan KeatesDiana Souhami, in writing about a boo
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