About the Author

Joanna Moorhead writes for the Guardian. Born in Lancashire, she now lives in London. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington is her first book.

Reviews

This biography is as strange and haunting as Leonora Carrington's surrealist paintings - Sunday TimesThe Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington could easily have run to at least a hundred or so extra pages without exhausting its subject . . . a charming and at times inspirational book - Literary ReviewAn intimate portrait of this wild child of surrealism and tells her fascinating story as recounted during a series of meetings in the later stages of her life - Tate etc.