Frances Osborne profundiza en las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las expectativas sociales a través de incisivos retratos biográficos. Su escritura se distingue por una investigación meticulosa y un estilo narrativo que da vida al pasado al tiempo que ilumina experiencias humanas atemporales. Osborne explora las vidas de mujeres fascinantes, descubriendo sus mundos interiores y luchas externas con empatía e inteligencia. Su obra ofrece ricas perspectivas históricas y psicológicas que resuenan en los lectores contemporáneos.
'This is a truly astonishing book. Frances Osborne has not just brought to life a dizzyingly rich and scandalous slice of social history, she has produced a tragic and deeply moving tale as well. It is far more gripping than any novel I have read for years' Antony Beevor
Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the Second World War after an extraordinary early life, passed her time compiling a book about the joys of food. This inspired her great-granddaughter, Frances Osborne, to investigate her story.