Rosemary Bailey

Rosemary Bailey has written two further books about the Pyrenees. The Man who Married a Mountain (Bantam Books 2005) followed the romantic 19th century mountaineer. Sir Henry Russell-Killough, in his quest for the sublime. Her most recent book, Love and War in the Pyrenees, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008) is an investigation of the Second World War, combining her own travels with contemporary interviews, documents andletters, described by the Jewish Chronicle as, ‘a quiet triumph of historical reconstruction’.
She is a fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and teaches writing for the Arvon Writers’ Foundation and runs her own writers’ retreats in the Pyrenees.
www.rosemarybailey.com