Amazing quote to come from Rose Tremain!
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo. Her book, Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London.
Gellhorn is a superb subject for biography. Caroline Moorehead has
seized the opportunity with an elan that her subject would have
admired. The result is an adventure story which, true to the genre,
has moments of both triumph and tragedy
*Independent on Sunday*
As one would expect from a writer of Caroline Moorehead's diligence
and acuity, this is an extremely thorough, colourful and pacy
biography
*Sunday Telegraph*
An enthralling biography - with an unflinching honesty Martha would
have approved of
*Daily Mail*
Superbly crafted, engaging and engaged... Martha Gellhorn leaps off
the page-marvellous
*Literary Review*
Not often does a biography make you against the odds fall headlong
for its heroine...but Caroline Moorehead's exemplary and exciting
account of the Hemingway wife who reported the war like it was
sweeps you incisively into a broad-based history of the last
century through the eyes of two women, author and subject, each as
brilliant as the other but sharply differing in temperament
*Spectator*
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