Lady L Author:Romain Gary Lady L. is the symbol of a world that is gone forever, a world of duchesses and stately mansions, of dinner parties, balls and ceremony, of anarchists and cabals, of assassinations and abductions, of noble gesstures and hopeless loves.. She is the symbol of that world, the last and the grandest of the grandes dames, the darling of English and Co... more »ntinental society, grandmother of Cabinet ministers and bishops, arbiter of tast and fashion. She is, it seems, lovable, intractable, exxentric, aristrocratic. But locked in her heart are secrets of an altogether different life and a love she can never tell. This is the storyu of those secrets.« less