Fed up with Ibiza
Jenny Turner: Sybille Bedford, 1 April 2021
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life
by Selina Hastings.
Chatto, 432 pp., £35, November 2020,978 1 78474 113 6 Show More
by Selina Hastings.
Chatto, 432 pp., £35, November 2020,
“... a large black poodle across America for the (Thomas) Manns; she drank cocktails in Paris with Jane Bowles and Martha Gellhorn; in Grasse and California she cooked and ate with M.F.K. Fisher and Julia Child. And when she settled in England in the 1960s, Elizabeth David told her that the bit in her first novel about a dinner of sea urchins, ‘heaped in a great ... ”