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A best-selling author of 11 books, with biographies of Wallis Simpson, Jennie Churchill, Mother Teresa and Laura Ashley to name a few. Her most recent book about Ethel Rosenberg was optioned by Miramax and shortlisted for the Wingate Prize. Anne has published widely, and her book Les Parisiennes won the Franco-British award. Anne has presented programmes for BBC R3 and R4. Anne worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters and has worked for the BBC World service in the Arabic department. Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Anne is regular speaker for many trusts and well-known institutions.
The talk describes how women in wartime Paris lived, loved and died under the Nzai occupation. The talk looks at the varied and complicated role women played and what choices they had to make to survive, feel alive and continue to live a cultured life where possible.
