Lovers and tyrants

Lovers and Tyrants is an erotic, urgent and enormously funny novel in the historical tradition of those writers whose art has radically expanded women's consciousness - Virginia Woolf, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary McCarthy, Doris Lessing. Francine Gray delivers us from many traditional literary inhibitions and opens a startling new perspective into the inner lives of women. The history of Stephanie-the woman whose life is chronicled-follows her from her extraordinary childhood in France thr...