Full Circle
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As international star Gloria Bird and leading British artist Alex Beck meet for the last time their intense and volatile relationship has spanned some sixty years.
From the Paris of the 1920s, the decadence of Berlin during the Weimar Republic and the horrors of The Blitz in London, their professional and private fortunes soar and fall only for them to rise again. As their initial passion declines, their affection deepens; as their marriages fail, they are engulfed by personal tragedies. Fame and fortune are viewed increasingly through a sea of booze, sleeping pills and drugs. Despite only meeting periodically, their relationship survives in this sweeping saga that cannot fail to involve and affect you.
Mike Hutton is a novelist and social historian. His previous books include ‘Life in 1940s London’ followed by ‘Life in 1950s London’. Soho and the Windmill Theatre both feature in ‘Full Circle’, drawing on the author’s knowledge gained through writing the acclaimed ‘The Story of Soho, The Windmill Years 1932 to 1964’. In 2019 he was invited to host a ‘Meet the Author’ day at the Imperial War Museum to launch his book ‘1919, A Land Fit For Heroes’. He lives in rural Northamptonshire. He has a keen interest in early twentieth-century British art.