Five Love Affairs and a Friendship

A racily enjoyable book … As the venerable author of studies of Diana Mosley, Margot Asquith and Coco Chanel, de Courcy commands this historical field and fills what is at bottom a tragic story of self-centred and self-destructive behaviour with a wealth of amusing anecdote and salacious detail – Rupert Christiansen * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Riveting … As de Courcy says in her enjoyable, deftly written book, it is hard to find a label for this remarkable woman. Selfish lover, alcoholic, campaigner - they all fit – Jane Ridley * SPECTATOR *
Highly readable – Ysenda Maxtone Graham * DAILY MAIL *
De Courcy brilliantly recreates the heady spirit of Cunard’s Paris: Montparnasse, the Lindbergh flight, Shakespeare & Co, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, and the Missouri-born dancer Josephine Baker, who performed naked save for a flamingo feather … You feel she really might have been there at the cafés, bars and boîtes – Laura Freeman * THE TIMES *
A seductive portrait of life lived to the fullest * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
A fulsome portrait of a quixotic, disruptive, talented woman * KIRKUS *
This bed-hopping biography by de Courcy does an excellent job conveying the reckless, decadent Jazz Age in Paris * LIBRARY JOURNAL *

Anne de Courcy is the author of thirteen widely acclaimed works of social history and biography, including THE HUSBAND HUNTERS, THE FISHING FLEET, THE VICEROY’S DAUGHTERS and DEBS AT WAR. In the 1970s she was Woman’s Editor on the LONDON EVENING NEWS and in the 1980s she was a regular feature-writer for the EVENING STANDARD. She is also a former features writer and reviewer for the DAILY MAIL. She lives in London SW3.

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