Never Anyone But You

A novel based on the real lives of French surrealists and lovers Lucie Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who defied conventions and gender and recreated themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. We follow their lives from their first meeting and immediate attraction in adolescence, to the art scene Paris - including encounters with Salvador Dali and Andre Breton, and all the other surrealists I am ignorant of - to their resistance movement and subsequent incarceration during WWII, up until their last days. Their life is challenging, occasionally dark, but their bond is strong and never really in question. I enjoyed the unafraid intimacy and openness they shared, and I liked that the book stayed with them until old age.

What I'd like now, is a website that shows all the original photographs they took, and that Thomson wove into the narrative.

I enjoyed it, but I was never really swept up in it. Apart from Suzanne's touching quiet last years maybe. Therefore 3.5