Dancing to the Precipice

Utterly captivating… brings to life both Lucie and the glorious and terrible years through which she lived with a novelistic vividness, full of sights and sounds and flavours * Sunday Times *A scintillating biography…Moorehead succeeds triumphantly [and] brings an assured grip on contemporary politics and a colourful sense of place * Daily Telegraph *A rich and satisfying book which not only adds to our appreciation of Madame de la Tour du Pin’s story but brings the whole tumultuous period and its characters to life * Spectator *Lucie de la Tour de Pin has found a biographer worthy of her own storytelling skills. With a light-handed touch, Moorehead sets Lucie’s story in its wider social and historical context, sketching the complicated political twists and turns in a way that makes them memorable without ever dumbing down – Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *Never less than a gripping story of an extraordinary life * Literary Review *Here is the latest from Caroline Moorhead whose work is never less than rigorously and beautifully composed * Daily Express *Moorehead has an eye for the detail… The book sparkles with gems about life at the court of Marie-Antoinette – Hugh MacDonald * The Herald *romantic adventure, staged in colourful historical settings…moral tale – Biancamaria Fontana * Times Literary Supplement *The attraction of Moorehead’s biography lies in her seamless fusion of Lucie’s warm subjectivity with a broad historical canvas of bitter turmoil. – Siofra Pierse * Irish Times *comprehensive and absorbing biography – Clare Colvin * Independent *

Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo and most recently, A Train in Winter. Caroline lives in London.

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