*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*\'A bravura performance, highly entertaining\' Evening StandardThe 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\' shopping.
The 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..
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 Epoque.
One 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. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*\'A bravura performance, highly entertaining\' Evening StandardThe 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\' shopping
