Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life: reluctant muse, feminist champion, society heiress, rebel refugee – and the last of the Surrealists. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for the more exciting avant-garde elite in 1930s Paris, she comes to rub shoulders with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí, after embarking on a complicated love affair with the German artist Max Ernst. 

But the demons which have both haunted and inspired her work are hovering, and when the world goes mad with the outbreak of war, Leonora’s own hold on reality collapses into a terrifying psychotic episode of her own. Eventually fleeing war-torn Europe, she emerges into a new and richly creative life in Mexico City, establishing herself as a prodigious painter, writer and advocate of women’s rights. Told in graphic novel form, this is a gripping story of a truly remarkable woman and artist.