*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*

''A bravura performance, highly entertaining'' Evening Standard

The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.

In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days'' shoppingOne was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent''s greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life.

Pozzi''s life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle EpoqueThe beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**

Format Häftad Omfång 280 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Vintage Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2021-06-03 ISBN 9781529112313