Gwendolen

Diana Souhami

I was winning when I met your gaze . . .

So begins the confession of Gwendolen Harleth: dazzling beauty wilful vivant and gambler of hearts: who bet her strength against her cruel husband staked it all on the love of Daniel Deronda and played her way back to a winning hand.

With the profound insight of her acclaimed biographies Diana Souhami fashions a real life for this most mercurial and magnetic of literary heroines plotting Gwendolen's course in step with the drama of the age as a pioneer of women's aspirations in our own.