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What a deliciously intelligent entertainment this is, couched in a prose of enviable suppleness... a master is at work here. Rupert Christiansen Daily Telegraph

 

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*

 

'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard

 

The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.

 

In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life.

 

Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.

 

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**

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