'Through incisive enquiry and astute observation, Catherine Hewitt traces the courtesan's flight from squalor to splendour, her prose sparkling in the light of her luminous subject.' The Biographer's Club prize A brilliant biography in the vein of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning The Pike§§Full of the colour and verve of 19th-century Paris§§Already the recipient of a Biographer's Club Prize and a Society of Authors grant ukryj opis