One of the first women students at Cambridge, Winnie Seebohm yearned for life and love, only to die of asthma at the age of 22. This first book by her great-niece, the acclaimed biographer Victoria Glendinning, tells her story.

This first full biography of Leonard Woolf (1880–1969) goes beyond his familiar role as husband of Virginia and member of the Bloomsbury set. Glendinning explores the many posts he filled during his long life, including colonial administrator, publisher, political writer and journal editor, and provides a full and lively portrait of a highly intelligent and complex man, who made significant contributions to the intellectual debates of his day.