On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life, Lesley Blanch, published by Virago, Little Brown UK HB ISBN 978 0349005447 PB ISBN 978-0349005461

Most famous for the group portrait, The Wilder Shores of Love, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer with a lifelong passion for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. This book collects together the story of her marriage with Romain Gary, previously published only in French; her journalism on the artistic melting pot that was London between the wars; and a selection of her most evocative travel pieces, to create the story of a fascinating, bohemian – and, at times outrageous - life that spanned the twentieth century.

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