Drawing on a range of material by and about J.M. Barrie, this is a biography of the novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. It includes material from recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and is reissued to mark the centenary of Peter Pan. schovat popis
'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages . . . ' Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in a Parisian slum and abandoned on the streets, discovers he has an extraordinary - near superhuman - sense of smell. As he sniffs his way across France, this gift is exploited by Grenouille to make the world's most marvellous perfumes. Yet in seeking perfection in his experiments, he realises that a vital ingredient is missing for the perfect scent: innocence. And in order to get the ingredient he needs, he must capture it - whatever the price. 'Ingenious and totally absorbing.' Daily Telegraph