Joan: 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, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers, reveals a woman hitherto only fleetingly glimpsed. A talented photographer, Joan defied the social conventions of her times and, though s