{"product_id":"martha-gellhorn-9780099284017","title":"Martha Gellhorn","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, \u003ci\u003eHuman Cargo.\u003c\/i\u003e Her book, \u003ci\u003eDancing to the Precipice\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGellhorn is a superb subject for biography. Caroline Moorehead has seized the opportunity with an elan that her subject would have admired. The result is an adventure story which, true to the genre, has moments of both triumph and tragedy * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eAs one would expect from a writer of Caroline Moorehead's diligence and acuity, this is an extremely thorough, colourful and pacy biography * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn enthralling biography - with an unflinching honesty Martha would have approved of * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eSuperbly crafted, engaging and engaged... Martha Gellhorn leaps off the page-marvellous * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eNot often does a biography make you against the odds fall headlong for its heroine...but Caroline Moorehead's exemplary and exciting account of the Hemingway wife who reported the war like it was sweeps you incisively into a broad-based history of the last century through the eyes of two women, author and subject, each as brilliant as the other but sharply differing in temperament -- David Hughes * Spectator *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732210659671,"sku":"9780099284017","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099284017.jpg?v=1791453859","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/martha-gellhorn-9780099284017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}