This is the story of how a group of women between the Wars fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher: a patron of artists: a society hostess: a groundbreaking writer. They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own forming a community around them in Paris. Each of these four central women interacted with a myriad of others, some of the most influential, most entertaining, most shocking and most brilliant figures of the age.