A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing

'I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy Strong

In the winter of 1924, Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives.

Set against a backdrop of the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War, and with an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, Anna Thomasson brings to life, for the first time, the fascinating, and curious, friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.

'Reverent and sympathetic, and often fascinating' Lesley McDowell, Independent

'Provides a window on to a fascinating world, and the story is narrated with elegant verve' Lara Feigel, Guardian

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