PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
As well as her award-winning two-volume biography of Matisse, Hilary Spurling is also the author of Ivy: The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, Paul Scott, La Grande Therese and The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. She is a regular book reviewer for the Daily Telegraph and New York Times.
'Praise for Volume One: 'Shows Spurling at her brilliant best as passionate scholar, traveller and storyteller ... lavishly illustrated and lovingly well written' Daily Telegraph Praise for Volume Two: 'An outstanding biography, as full of insights into the pictures as it is revealing about the man' Jeanette Winterson, The Times 'Destined to remain the standard biography for a long time. Spurling has done better than anyone else at uncovering intimate information about Matisse' Guardian
