Sweet Caress

Name: Sweet Caress
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Sweet CaressThe Many Lives of Amory Clay\nAuthor(s): William Boyd\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nISBN-13: 9781408867990, 978-1408867990\nSynopsis\nLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017\n\nTHE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nAmory Clays first memory is of her father doing a handstand but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing socialites for magazines. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi-monde of 1920s Berlin, New York in the 1930s, the Blackshirt riots in London, and France during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first women war photographers.\n\nIn this enthralling story of a life fully .