{"id":46959,"date":"2018-06-13T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46959"},"modified":"2018-06-13T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:31:06","slug":"author-rupert-thomson-signs-never-anyone-but-you-at-square-books-monday-june-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/author-rupert-thomson-signs-never-anyone-but-you-at-square-books-monday-june-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Rupert Thomson Signs “Never Anyone But You” at Square Books Monday, June 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by\u00a0<\/span>chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy\u00a0<\/span>seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by\u00a0<\/span>the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of\u00a0<\/span>wealthy Jewish intellectuals. <\/span><\/p>\n

They embark on a clandestine love affair,\u00a0<\/span>terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate,\u00a0<\/span>the mother of one marries the father of the other. As \u201csisters\u201d they are\u00a0<\/span>finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they\u00a0<\/span>move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most\u00a0<\/span>glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway<\/strong> and Dal\u00ed<\/strong> to Andr\u00e9 Breton<\/strong>, and\u00a0<\/span>produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of\u00a0<\/span>anti-Semitism and threat of fascism, they leave Paris<\/strong> for Jersey<\/strong>, and it is on this idyllic island\u00a0<\/span>that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler\u2019s occupying\u00a0<\/span>forces that will put their lives in jeopardy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brilliantly imagined, profoundly thought-provoking, and ultimately heartbreaking, Never Anyone\u00a0<\/em><\/span>But You<\/em> infuses life into a forgotten history as only great literature can.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rupert Thomson<\/strong> is the author of nine highly acclaimed novels, including Secrecy; The Insult,\u00a0<\/span>which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and selected by David Bowie as one of his\u00a0<\/span>100 Must-Read Books of All Time; The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film\u00a0<\/span>by Ana Kokkinos; and Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the\u00a0<\/span>Year Award. His memoir, This Party\u2019s Got to Stop<\/em>, was named Writers\u2019 Guild Non-Fiction\u00a0<\/span>Book of the Year. He lives in London.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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