The Face : A Cultural History by Fay Bound-Alberti culture a modern woman with an

a modern woman with an elemental vitality that could scarcely be contained by her century - who will live forever in the art she created and inspired

Most moving of all is the story of the tanker Ohio

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James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live

dispelling tabloid myths and setting the record straight with stories she's never shared before

The Face : A Cultural History by Fay Bound-Alberti culture a modern woman with anEqual parts gripping and scholarly a timely book that gets to the heart of contemporary society' Katy Hessel, Sunday Times 'Utterly fascinating, beautifully written, scholarly yet entertaining' Joanna Lumley A pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world renowned cultural historian Whats in a face? The face is the only part of the body where all the senses come together and, over the course of human history,