Very Dangerous Woman

<h1><b>Schemer, seductress, and sometime spy.</b></h1><p>Baroness Moura Budberg was notorious throughout 1950s London for her reputation as a gossip and a lover to several well-known writers and artists. She was deeply charismatic, commanding centre stage wherever she went, and beloved for the air of mystery and glamour that she cultivated around herself.</p><p>But despite her charms, even her closest friends knew very little of the truth. Prone to all sorts of tall-tales and decadent lies, Moura reinvented herself tirelessly, obfuscating her past and mythologising her present. But who was the real woman, behind all of her many faces?</p><p>Using material not previously available, Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield have managed to separate fact from fiction to uncover the truth about Baroness Moura Budberg. At once a socialite of bohemian glamour, gifted in the arts of storytelling and seduction, and a courageous adventuress, a double agent for both British and Soviet intelligence, and a woman that made great personal sacrifices in the name of love.</p><b><i>A Very Dangerous Woman</i> is a tale of espionage quite unlike any other.</b>