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This is a very readable account of a tragic figure, admirably sympathetic while not seeking to conceal her faults. The three sections of plates, in colour (including two of the notorious nude shots) and black and white plates are well chosen. My only real criticism is the author’s preoccupation at times with herself, her insistence on showing us how thoroughly she has done her research, and how she is the only person – or almost the only one – to examine a certain item of evidence, or interview a certain person. Frankly one suspects she could have done with a rather more forceful editor to call her to heel. Yet for all that, this is a very worthwhile book on a fascinating and complex twentieth-century icon.

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