This book penetrates the facade of this most bizarre and flamboyant of all literary families - the Sitwells. As poets, style-setters, publicists of the modern movement and scourge of the philistine, their impact was as immense as it was unique. John Pearson has written "Bluebird and the Dead Lake", "The Persuasion Industry", "Arena", "The Profession of Violence", "The Life of Ian Fleming", "Edward the Rake" and "Stags and Serpents".