Patrician Poverty
Rosemary Hill: Sybille Bedford, 18 August 2005
Quicksands: A Memoir
by Sybille Bedford.
Hamish Hamilton, 370 pp., £20, June 2005,0 241 14037 4 Show More
by Sybille Bedford.
Hamish Hamilton, 370 pp., £20, June 2005,
“... write, was turning into the ‘tough little person . . . always dressed as a motor racer’ whom Nancy Mitford later remarked. There had been only sporadic attempts to educate her, which had involved more train journeys, undertaken mostly alone, and the boat to England. This country, where she eventually made her home, felt at first like a mistake: ‘I ... ”