Caroline Eden is a writer and journalist for The Guardian, Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement, among others. She is the author of Samarkand (2016) and Black Sea (2018). She lives in Edinburgh.

Written by Caroline Eden

Vintage black-and-white photo of two women in swimsuits wearing 1930s hairstyles, lighting one another’s cigarettes.

Exquisite fiend, ephemeral friend

Remember when smoking was the excuse for a sweet pause?

by Caroline Eden