K - The Art of Love

Set in 1930s China, K tells the true story of the passionate and illicit affair between Julian Bell - son of Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and the darling of the Bloomsbury Group - and the beautiful Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Cheng. Against the vivid backdrop of a decadent Peking, Lin teaches Julian the Daoist Art of Love - but the country around them is divided by cultural conflict and overshadowed by impending war, which will impact on both of their lives with tragic consequences. K: The Art of Love is an erotic, moving and captivating novel inspired by the letters of Julian Bell.