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“... after having been indulged in everything by the father who had so narrowly rescued her from death. Diane Boucher’s sympathetic and thorough biography, the first monograph on Cosway, conveys her subject’s bounce and lovability as well as the poignancy of a turbulent career and a life whose conclusion was as unlikely in its way as its beginning.The ...”

“... him over the drugs – he took up with a clingy, bouffant-haired Filipina cocktail waitress called Diane, whom he married in 1957. (He wasn’t in love with her, he confesses. She was dumb and slovenly: ‘Diane – the Great Zeeeero.’ ‘I just wanted to have chicks I could ball when I wanted to ball.’) She, too, soon ...”