A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealisms most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carringtonlater to become one of the twentieth centurys great painters of the weird the alarming and the wildwas a nineteenyearold art student in London beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940