Gertrude Stein - An Afterlife – 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly compelling.'

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025'Strikingly accomplished . Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding - and contested - writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth.