- For fans of Suite for Barbara Loden, Nathalie Leger's first book in English, described on Twitter as a `brilliant little book' by Valeria Luiselli; and one of Eimear McBride's Guardian Books of the Year 2015. - Listed in The White Review's Books of the Year 2019 by Lauren Elkin. - Online excerpts on 3:AM Magazine and The London Magazine. - Together with The White Dress, her second novel Exposition will be published in the US later this year for the 10th anniversary of Dorothy Project, an American independent literary press publishing only two books a year. - Event at the Photographers' Gallery, London, 19 February 2020 with Amanda DeMarco and Jonathan Gibbs (author of Randall Or The Painted Grape) - Excerpt published in TANK Magazine Summer Reader issue 2020 . - 38 Great books to read this fall in Buzzfeed

Everything can be exhibited: trinkets from the Second French Empire, a collection of photographs, a boudoir from beyond the grave, a heroine famous for her beauty, her extravagance and her pitiful end. Everything can be exposed: a woman for another woman... , the fear of one's own body, a way of entering a scene, the thrill of seduction, abandonment, the reassurance of objects, a ruin. Over the course of four decades, the Countess Virginia Oldoini returned to the same Paris studio to be photographed, posing in different tableaux to mark the moments of her life, real and imagined. A fascination with 'La Castiglione' led Nathalie Leger to weave together this imaginative proto-biography. Mysterious yet over-exposed, adored and despised for her beauty in equal measure, Castiglione was a flamboyant aristocrat, mistress of Napoleon III and a rumoured spy. Examining the myths around icons past and present, Leger meditates on the half-truths of portrait photography, reframing her own family history in the process.