Joan
05 October 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now, Simon Fenwick, archivist of the Leigh Fermor papers, tells Joan's story in Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor.
A talented photographer, Joan defied the social conventions of her times and, though she came from a wealthy and...
Details
05 October 2017320 pages
9781509848706Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[A] chatty, charmingly digressive, gossipy biographyYsenda Maxtone-Graham, Daily Mail
Does Joan merit a biography of her own? If someone had asked her, she would almost certainly have said no. But Simon Fenwick pulls it off . . . A quiet rebel and a fertile muse, Joan was a remarkable woman, and this is an entertaining book.Jane Ridley, Literary Review
In this engrossing biography, the woman hitherto overshadowed by her husband
Observer
(soldier and author Patrick Leigh Fermor) is brought from black and white to full
colour . . . Societal expectations of women are compellingly captured, too, along with
Joan’s inner life, resulting in a vivid portrait of her and the places and people she loved.
