Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor

Simon Fenwick is an archivist who has worked on the private papers of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Xan Fielding. He lives in London. This is his first full-length biography.Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now, Simon Fenwick, archivist of the Leigh Fermor papers, tells Joan's story in Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor.A talented photographer, Joan defied the social conventions of her times and, tho