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Sweet caress : the many lives of Amory Clay / William Boyd.
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9781408867976 (hbk.)
1408867974 (hbk.)
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Boyd, William, 1952-
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Sweet caress : the many lives of Amory Clay / William Boyd.
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London, England Bloomsbury, 2015.
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ix, 447 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
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Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future. A spell at boarding school ends abruptly and Amory begins an apprenticeship with Greville in London, living in his tiny flat in Kensington, earning two pounds a week photographing socialites for the magazine Beau Monde. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late 20s, to New York of the 30s, to the Blackshirt riots in London and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. Her desire for experience will lead Amory to further wars, to lovers, husbands and children as she continues to pursue her dreams and battle her demons.
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Photographers -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
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Domestic fiction
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