Hardback. 365pp. A study of the relationships of nine literary couples: Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray; H.D. and Ezra Pound; Rebecca West and H. G. Wells; Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford; Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller; Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre; Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway; Elizabeth Smart and George Baker; Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Integral photographs of the writers at the start of each chapter. Smartly quarter bound in black with beige papers to the boards. Gilt titles to the spine. Very clean and neat.