'Real and unmistakable genius.' - Rebecca West 'It is refreshing to find a 1940s novel so firmly situated in the realms of female consciousness and so rooted in a conviction of the validity of female desire.' - SCOTSMAN 'Anais Nin writes sensitively, with psychological training as well as insight... she has a subcutaneous interest in her characters and Lawrence's sixth sense.' - TLS 'Lyrical... her words flow like music.' - GUARDIAN

ANAIS NIN was born in Paris in 1903 and moved to the USA at the age of eleven. She returned to Paris a decade later and studied psychoanalysis. Her first book was published in the 1930s and she went on to write stories and a series of autobiographical novels (including COLLAGES, A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE and UNDER A GLASS BELL) and her celebrated volumes of erotica, THE DELTA OF VENUS and LITTLE BIRDS. Perhaps best known for her JOURNALS, which were published by Peter Owen and established her reputation, her personal life and loves have attracted considerable attention - partly through her association with Henry Miller and his wife but also because for a number of years she was married to two men at the same time, with neither finding out until after her death in 1977.