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There is an addictive pungency to this exotic tale of lives lived loudly Sunday Times The remarkable life of Caresse Crosby, now retold by her great-granddaughter Observer A vivid and inventive debut novel about four generations of women in a family, their past and their legacy, which evokes the work of Kate Atkinson, Tessa Hadley and Virginia Baily. I will describe it as best I can. This is their story. Or perhaps just mine. Let us begin, again . . . On a brisk day in 1970, a daughter arrives at her mothers home to take care of her as she nears the end of her life. Home is the sprawling Italian castle of Roccasinibalda, and Dianas mother is the legendary Caresse Crosby, one half of literatures most scandalous couple in 1920s Paris, widow of Harry Crosby, the American heir, poet and publisher who epitomised the Lost Generation. But it was not only Harry who was lost. Their incendiary love story concealed a darkness that marked mercurial Diana and still burns through the generations:
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