Banine

The Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, and Banine is free for the first time in her life. She has fled her ruined homeland and unhappy forced marriage for a dazzling new future in Paris. Now she cuts her hair, wears short skirts, and mingles with Russian émigrés, Spanish artists, writers, and bohemians in the 1920s beau monde—and even...

A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten' – Evening Standard 'An effervescent and irreverent feat of recollection and imagination' – Wall Street Journal We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast,...