The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings’ earlier biographical subjects include Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamond Lehmann.
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978178474113612/11/2020
Categories: 01. Books for Christmas 2020: Biography, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Books for Christmas 2020
Tags: 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: writers, Books about Writers, Event: Selina Hastings: Sybille Bedford, Publishing and book trade, Relating to lesbians
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