Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence - Softcover

Cooper's biography is a careful portrait of a woman bursting with every talent except the capacity to inspire enduring love * Daily Telegraph * Artemis Cooper's biography of Howard asserts the importance of Howard the writer, but also paints a painful portrait of a woman whose emotional life was often determined by the approval and attention of men * Guardian Review * I inhaled every blissful word. A sad, revelatory, brilliantly written account of one remarkable woman's life in writing, cooking, and having sex. An unexpected triumph -- Rachel Johnson * Daily Mail * Elegant, sympathetic but clear-sighted * Mail on Sunday * An unexpected treasure . . . It is as compelling and unified as a novel, while recounting a full, messy, complex human story . . . Cooper is respectful but never sycophantic, clear-eyed but never mocking. Familiar stories are retold but also reconsidered, and set in context. And the book pays the literary biography's ultimate compliment - it will send even those most familiar with the novels back to their bookshelves to revisit them * Financial Times * Compelling * Sunday Times * A careful portrait of a fascinating woman * Sunday Telegraph * In this fascinating biography, Artemis Cooper paints a picture of a complex and tricky woman * Sunday Express * Looks set to be the literary biography of the autumn * Good Housekeeping * Cooper has assiduously gathered material from everyone involved, and the details and perspectives are tantalizingly fresh * The Times * A careful and accurate portrait * Daily Telegraph * Hugely absorbing * Guardian *

Artemis Cooper is the author of a number of books including Cairo in the War, 1939-1945, Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David and, most recently, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. With her husband, Antony Beevor, she wrote Paris After the Liberation, 1945-1949. She has edited two collections of letters as well as Words of Mercury, an anthology of the work of Patrick Leigh Fermor; and, with Colin Thubron, she edited The Broken Road, the final volume of Leigh Fermor's European trilogy.