Reading Madeleine

<p>Franco-British writer Roger Greaves tells the strange story of a mixed-gender literary partnership in 20th century London when a penniless French immigrant girl from Soho teamed up with a young Fleet Street columnist in Mayfair to celebrate the role of women at a turning point in postwar Europe. Their 40+ books about themselves and the world of 'Madeleine' their feminine figurehead remained constantly in print from 1940 until the tide turned on them and their prestigious publisher J.M Dent & Sons in the 1970s. <em>Reading Madeleine</em> reveals how the vintage appeal of Mrs Robert Henrey has also much to say about the world of today and its troubled relationship with truth.</p>