The Press Association
...Catherine Hewitt's well-researched and annotated biography...she has written a truly handsome boudoir book.
Booklist, USA
Hewitt's fascinating biography reads like a novel and paints a vivid portrait of a woman who reinvented herself
Kirkus, USA
A thoroughly researched and clearly written account of a determined and talented woman and of an era.
Library Journal, USA
Hewitt has created an engaging and richly narrated biography exploring not only this figure's life but also the inner workings of Paris at the time Valtesse's star began to rise.…
New York Post
It was the 19th century, but the French courtesan Valtesse played the press like a Kardashian.
New York Times
If you haven't read 'Nana' - or, even more so, if you have and are hungering for a less censorious, more deeply researched and respectful biography of the 19th-century French…