
The Queen of Whale Cay
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WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very early on that she was not like most girls. Liberated by war work in the First World War, Marion reinvented herself as 'Joe'. She dressed in men's clothes, smoked cigars and cheroots, tattooed her arms and became Britain's most celebrated female speed-boat racer - the 'fastest woman on water'.
Yet Joe tired of the limelight in 1934 and retired to the Bahamian island of Whale Cay. There she fashioned her own kingdom, where she threw riotous parties at which Hollywood actresses and British royalty were among the guests. Although her lovers included screen sirens such as Marlene Dietrich,
the real love of Joe's life was a small boy-doll named Lord Tod Wadley, to whom she remained devoted throughout her remarkable life. She died, aged 93, in 1993
'A small jewel of a biography' NEW YORKER
'Fascinating, hilarious and deliciously subversive' LITERARY REVIEW
'A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing' SUNDAY TIMES
'A wonderful account of a truly extraordinary life' MAIL ON SUNDAY
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 I Was Never A Little Girl
- 2 A Very Healthy Little Beast
- 3 The Action of Testicular Pulp
- 4 What do you Want With Eggs and Ham?
- 5 An Unknown Quantity
- 6 The Water when One Hits it
- 7 Hullo! My Dear Fellow
- 8 I did Look Like A Boy, I Really did
- 9 Nobody Really Knows Anything About their Behaviour
- 10 An Absurd Manikin
- 11 Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady
- 12 They Thought I was Most Unusual
- 13 Alas, Now Dead, the Bed Said
- 14 I had A Country Going
- 15 Join Hands on the Roadway to the Sun
- 16 The Neverland
- 17 I don't give A Fuck About the Law
- 18 It Felt Like A Woman had Died
- 19 Only Wadley
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- Notes
- Plate Section 1
- Plate Section 2
- Plate Section 3
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright Page
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