sentences:  She also depicted Barney in her 1930 novel, "L'Ange et les Pervers" ("The Angel and the Perverts"), in which she said she "analyzed and described Natalie at length as well as the life into which she initiated me".The protagonist of the novel is a hermaphrodite named Marion who lives a double life, frequenting literary salons in female dress, then changing from skirt to trousers to attend gay soirées.Barney appears as "Laurette Wells", a salon hostess who spends much of the novel trying to win back an ex-lover, loosely based on Barney's real-life attempts at regaining her relationship with her former lover, Renée Vivien.