- 2012 edition, 307 pages
- Published by Virago Press
- Paperback, Format A
- Very good condition, near new
Illustrated and index include.
Part musical odyssey, part dazzling love story, The Baroness by Nica Rothschild's great niece, traces an extraordinary, thrilling journey - from England's stately homes to the battlefields of Africa, passing under the shadow of the Holocaust, and finally to New York's 1950s jazz scene.
Pannonica - known as Nica - was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege. As a child she took daily walks with her sisters and her governess, alongside kangaroos, giant tortoises and zebras; an exotic menagerie collected by her uncle. As a debutante she married a barron who taught her how to fly a plane and whisked her off to a chateau in France. When the war came she joined the Free French Army.
She seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. Then in the early 1950s she hear 'Round Midnight' by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk; the music overtook her like a spell, and she abandoned her marriage to find him. Shunned by society, musicians gave her friendship and she gave them support: her Bentley was a familiar sight outside their clubs and Charlie Parker died in her apartment.
But her real love was for Monk, whom she cared for until his death.
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