A Very Dangerous Woman by Deborah Mcdonald

A Very Dangerous Woman by Deborah Mcdonald

A story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe and saw a woman born to indulgence and selfishness sacrifice everything for love - only to be betrayed

'Riveting biography…of [Moura Budberg's] remarkable life…Dangerous woman, indeed'

* Independent on Sunday *

‘An extraordinarily complex story based on a fabulous cache of rich material… the end result really is an example of truth being stranger than fiction’

* Good Book Guide *

'Hard to go wrong with Moura's combustible life, and the authors relish her excesses'.

* Independent *

‘McDonald and Dronfield’s summaries of events during the revolutionary period make a coherent narrative from a bafflingly complex series of events’

* The Guardian *

‘A rollicking good read’

* Country Life *

‘A thrilling new biography of baroness and double agent Moura Budberg…. Brave and multi-faceted, a mosaic monument to a mistress of deceit.’

* Russia Beyond the Headlines *

‘The tale of Baroness Moura Budberg is a splendid one… entertaining and well-researched.’

-- Dr. Mark Galeotti, Clinical Professor of Global Affairs, New York University

‘There is an echo of foxy, seductive Scarlett O'Hara about Moura Budberg’

* Herald *

‘This book could read like a thriller, yet the thorough research here provides a weightier feast… impressive… alive… a well-researched and well-ordered biography’

* Spectator *

‘Conjures up a vivid and alluring version of old Russia’ 

* Mail on Sunday *

‘An astoundingly unbelievable life well retold in this gripping new biography. Well-written too. The book’s account of the Lockhart Affair is particularly fascinating, recreating the paranoid, anti-Western world that was Soviet Russia in the late 19-teens and early 1920s.’

* Russian Life *

‘[The authors] have done a sterling job of piecing together the pieces of this mysterious, peripatetic life… they are very clear about the limits of what can and cannot be known from the extant evidence’

* Daily Telegraph *

'A fast-paced story of European intrigue, featuring an enigmatic, strong-willed woman [whose] survival story is fascinating.'

* Publishers Weekly *

'The authors draw on diaries, correspondence, and newly released files to create a powerful study that attracts sympathy toward their subject. It also produces a great snapshot of life in Russia during the collapse of the czarist regime through the early part of the Joseph Stalin era.'

* Library Journal *

Deborah McDonald is the author of Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman and The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper: The Evidence Linking James Kenneth Stephen to the Whitechapel Murders. She lives on the Isle of Wight.

Jeremy Dronfield is a writer, biographer and novelist.

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ISBN 13	9781780747088
ISBN 10	178074708X
Title	A Very Dangerous Woman
Author	Deborah Mcdonald
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oneworld Publications
Year published	2015-05-07
Number of pages	416
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