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Hampstead in the 1930s. Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson have embarked on a love affair which will go on to launch an era-defining art movement.

Circles and Squares chronicles the exhilarating rise and fall of British Modernism, capturing the inner circle drawn into Hepworth and Nicholson’s wake: among them Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Paul Nash and the famed European emigrés Walter Gropius, Piet Mondrian and László and Lucia Moholy-Nagy. This enthralling, finely researched account threads together the lives, loves, ambitions and rivalries of the artists at the heart of an international avant-garde, trailblazers united in their belief that art could change the world. Author Caroline Maclean is in conversation with Lara Feigel.