Sweet Caress

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By William Boyd

Amory Clay was born in the decade before the Great War, and her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and told people he had a son. She grew up refusing to let anyone else decide what that meant, and from the moment she picked up her first camera she kept her own record of events.

The novel follows her between London and New York, between fashion work and photojournalism, through the war and after it, and through the men who loved her on two continents. Illustrated with the photographs she is supposed to have taken.

First published 2015