This is much more than the biography of Joy Hester, a young and beautiful artist and poet working in the 1940's and 50s whose life, until her premature death from cancer at the age of 40, was intense and dramatic. It critically and lucidly examines Joy Hester's oeuvre, which comprises several hundred drawings and poems, and a handful of oil paintings.

The 80 drawings and paintings and 30 poems reproduced in this fine volume, show Joy Hester's art at its best.