SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATORSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019-This exceptional book is far from standard biography - A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a tour of the immediate post-war art world, a snapshot of grimy London and a narrative of Freud-s career and rackety life and loves - Leaves the reader itchy for volume two- SUNDAY TIMES, ART BOOK OF THE YEAR-Brilliant - Freud would have approved-DAILY TELEGRAPH-Sparkling-SUNDAY TIMES -Superlative - packed with stories-GUARDIAN-Brilliant and compendious ... It does justice to Lucian- FRANK AUERBACH''A tremendous read. Anyone interested in British art needs it'' ANDREW MARR, NEW STATESMANThough ferociously private
