Born in 1899, Antonia White was a novelist and short-story writer who spent much of her life in the shadow of madness. But she was also a witty and attractive woman, a prolific advertising copy-writer, a fashion journalist and translator of Colette and Maupassant. Her first two marriages were annulled on the grounds of non-consummation, but she had several lovers before turning back in middle age to the Catholicism, imposed on her in childhood.
Drawing on her parents' unpublished letters and notebooks, as well as her own astonishingly frank recollections, her daughter, Lyndall Hopkinson tells the compelling story of this brilliant, tormented and courageous woman and her legacy to the next generation.
Contains 30 b/w illustrations
