A Vast Horizon

History in which deep ocean currents flow through individual lives … a compelling read – Michael Bird, author of This Is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
At once intimate and expansive, A Vast Horizon layers real upon surreal to build a fascinating portrait of art, war and life – Clare Mulley, author of Women’s Prize shortlisted Agent Zo
Beginning with a single, tantalizing photograph, Anna Thomasson weaves a fascinating story around nine figures in the Surrealist movement. Beautifully told … wonderfully interesting and hugely informative – David Boyd Haycock, author of Brilliant Destiny: The Age of Augustus John
An enviable lightness of touch … This chapter in the history of human and artistic relations has never been better recounted – Andrew Lambirth, co-author of A Look at My Life
A brilliant and engrossing book. Anna Thomasson prowls around her extraordinary group of artists, poets, and models with the subtle skill of a documentary maker … It’s a triumph – Miranda Seymour
Excellent and revealing … Thomasson’s clear perception gives us their personalities, affinities and achievements in such a manner that at the end we feel their loss as if they had been our friends – Antony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives
An inspired chronicle … takes the ingenious form of a scrapbook or collage … an approach enhanced by the author’s keen eye and loose-limbed prose. * The New York Times *

Anna Thomasson studied for an M Phil in Biography at the University of Buckingham and her thesis was shortlisted for the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize. She is the author of the highly acclaimed A Curious Friendship. A Vast Horizon is her second book.

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