Journey into the mind's eye

Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious traveler first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her lovelorn and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, It travels in time over fifty years, and in space from aristocratic England to sophisticated Paris and the haunting beauty of Moscow, the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the awesome reaches of the Russian steppes. It travels in spirit from a young gir's awakening to a mature woman's fulfillment. Lesley Blanch, born in 1907, was married to Romain Gary, and is the author of a number of books, including The Wilder Shores of Love, Journey into the Mind's Eye was originally published in 1969 (Atheneum).