Marie-Astrid Prache-de Mézerac’s Et Shanghai Demeure – A Biography of Larissa Andersen

I’m excited to see the publication of Marie-Astrid Prache-de Mézerac’s Et Shanghai Demeure (And Shanghai Endures), a biography of the wonderful Russian-emigre, later French poet (and in between Shanghai dancer, beauty queen and lover of Sir Victor Sassoon) Larissa Andersen. Larissa was a minor character in my book City of Devils and I always wanted to find time to research and write about her more – but she enters and exits the tale fairly rapidly. Anyway, Marie-Astrid has now done the job and her book is now published by Paulsen in France (here)…. And if you’re in France in June she’s on tour….