Erotic Vagrancy

One of the very best biographies I have ever read STEPHEN FRY
A hot thunderstorm of a book DAVID HARE
Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy CRAIG BROWN
Unputdownable TONY PALMER
A genius writer LYNN BARBER
Ive never read anything like it! RICHARD E GRANT

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf.

Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other.