A biography of 6 extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka not only danced the Charleston and wore fashionable clothes, but made themselves prominent among the artists, icons and heroines of their age. 'Engaging' Amanda Foreman, }Mail on Sunday{.