The Dictionary of Animal LanguagesWe grant men a right to solitude. Why can't we do the same for women? Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian setthe surrealists. Torn between an intoxicating love affair with a married Russian painter and her soaring ambition to create, Ivory's life is