Kirkus, USA
...this excellent biography...Hewitt sums up Valadon's achievement perfectly: "Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was true." A well-researched tribute to and resurrection of a…
The Bookbag
None of this story was known to me – but boy, is it known to me now... the definitive version of this story to gazump anyone else planning to create…
Publishers Weekly, USA
The book illuminates the social web at the heart of the Paris art scene, focusing on the camaraderie that developed between Valadon and artists Toulouse Lautrec and Edgar Degas, which…
The Glasgow Herald
...this is a compelling book...in these moments of troubling humanity...Hewitt brings Valadon to life.
France Magazine
Complemented by colour photographs and filled with fascinating detail, the book provides a long-overdue insight into the life of an ambitious woman determined to succeed in a male-dominated world.
Booklist, USA
Hewitt continues her mission to tell the stories of covertly powerful, yet overlooked French women in this step-by-step, swerve-by-swerve biography of the artist's model and muse, 'revolutionary' artist, and mother…
Library Journal, USA
A must for art lovers and scholars, it will also appeal to readers of serious historical biographies.
The Historical Novel Society, USA
Hewitt’s Paris sparkles with life and energy. The rich layering of details along with the eccentric cast of characters reads like a highly engrossing novel. Suzanne Valadon’s life is so…
BookPage, USA
Hewitt excels at recreating the atmosphere of Montmartre as it evolved from bohemian enclave to tourist nightspot. The reader tags along with Valadon to heady establishments like Le Chat Noir…
The Washington Post, USA
Hewitt makes her subject’s life an armature on which to hang a history of the Belle Époque, and she includes erudite digressions into the major events of the time –…