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Dans les rues de Londres, où il est dangereux d’être un enfant, le jeune Peter s’invente une maman douce et aimante pour échapper à une réalité bien plus violente et alcoolisée. Son quotidien est dur et fait d'humiliations. Jusqu'au jour où le bon Monsieur Kundal lui parle de son père disparu... et du pouvoir de l'imaginaire.

'A romp through British royal fashion and image-making between the Edwardian era and 1960 . . . Compelling and well-researched' New York Times 'Magnificent . . . A book that is tart, racy and compulsively readable. The pictures, as you might expect, are gorgeous' Kathryn Hughes, The Times This...

Miss Dior paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister, Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her to Occupied Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück.