Imogen came to Paris believing it to be the city of romance and love – of starlit clichés – yet hadn’t considered that it had also been surrealism’s birthplace.
In the Paris from which Andre Breton spun his webs of wild revolutionary art and which Louis Aragon documented through le merveilleux quotidien, Andrew Hook weaves the poignant and erotic story of a British expatriate and her increasingly surreal quest for sexual fulfilment – a beautiful journey from the familiar to a place where sex itself becomes the ultimate unreality.