ANTHONY BLUNT (PB) – MIRANDA CARTER

When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be – and was – said. As Surveyor of the Queen s Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt s position was assured until his exposure in 1979 left his reputation in tatters. Miranda Carter s brilliantly insightful biography gives us a vivid portrait of a human paradox. Blunt s totally discrete lives, with their permanent contradictions, serve to remind us that there is no one key to any human being s identity: we are all a series of conflicting selves.