Face

About the book

'Equal parts gripping and scholarly... a timely book that gets to the heart of contemporary society' Katy Hessel, Sunday Times

'Utterly fascinating, beautifully written, scholarly yet entertaining' Joanna Lumley

A pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world-renowned cultural historian

What's in a face?

The face is the only part of the body where all the senses come together and, over the course of human history, has come to represent who we are as individuals. We unlock our phones with facial recognition; we have our faces stamped in our passports; and although our faces may change over the course of our lives - whether through ageing, accident, illness or lifestyle -...