‘Interesting, gorgeous, wonderful…. this book displays the best of bohemia itself - playful, dazzling, original’ Julie Burchill, Spectator

‘Racy, vivacious, warm-hearted. Offers an illuminating and well-researched portrait of life among the artists, a century ago’ TLS

Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century were ingaged in a grand experiment. The Bohemians ate garlic and didn’t always wash; they painted and danced and didn’t care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, broke and hungry but they were rebels.

In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives.