I enjoyed this, but have so many problems with it. It's written in a slangy and gossipy style and not always well. There are some editorial howlers. There's a fair amount of unthinking colonialist racism and snobbery that I think creep in because the author is so besotted with the world she writes about. However, it shows signs of deep research, and I did get a good sense of the woman at the centre of it and her world.