A Dangerous Liaison

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 *
Despite revealing the dark side of a pair “glued together by their lies”, this assiduously detailed and extremely even-handed biography never loses sight of the remarkable courage it took to break the mould of their century * Guardian *
Here is all you need to know: the women they loved and the books they wrote * Evening Standard *
The subject matter could not be richer yet it is the clarity of Seymour-Jones’s vision that is most impressive * The Daily Telegraph *

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.

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