A figure on the Bloomsbury literary scene of the 1930s, Olive Moore (the pseudonym of Constance Vaughan) was a journalist and the author of four books. Her last book, published in 1932, Fugue features themes that she grappled with all of her life?the relationship between artistic and biological reproduction, exile, and the (for her) puzzling dependence of women on men. A stylistic tour de force, it is the masterpiece of a writer who has rightly been compared to Djuna Barnes and Jean Rhys.