Born: 1883. She died in 1971 aged 87 in her private quarters at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. Background: Born in Saumer, Southern France, out of wedlock and raised by nuns in a French orphanage.
This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong ...