From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh comes this brilliant first biography of the universally acclaimed English writer, Sybille Bedford.
Passionate, liberated, fiercely independent, Bedford was a journalist, novelist and biographer, the author of ten books including a biography of Aldous Huxley and four novels all of which fictionalized her extraordinary life. Though born in Berlin, she grew up in Baden first with her distant, aristatic father and then with her with her intellectual, narcissistic, morphine-addicted mother and her lover in France. She was a survivor with a German Jewish background of WWI as a child and WWII as an adult and of a life in exile not only in France, but Italy, New York and Los Angeles before finally settling in England.
Bedford was ahead of her time in many ways, with great enthusiasm for life and all its sensual pleasures including friendship with bold faced names in the worlds of literature, food as well as...