This intriguing and artfully structured historic novel begins in 1966, when Lee Miller’s Vogue editor visits her in the countryside in East Sussex and asks her to write about her relationship with Man Ray. Miller was a Vogue model in New York in the 1920s. At 22, she moved to Paris and became an assistant to Man Ray, who was her father’s age. As a member of Paris’s surrealist circle, she developed her own style, and is credited along with Man Ray, with discovering the photographic technique solarisation. Later, as a war photographer, she documented some of the most horrific moments in World War Two. Suffering from what would now be considered PTSD, she married and retreated. Scharer’s telling of their passionate and creative four-year affair is dynamic, sensual, and immensely satisfying. (Little, Brown)