Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Actually an ex libaray but does not look like one only a withdrawn stamp on a cover page no other markings. Gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Very old men were sitting with their mouths open In the great bakery the male murderers were making bread; in the laundry murderesses washed clothes and sheets…” Whether Frances Partridge is writing about liaisons and intrigues breakfast conversa- tions house-parties eccentric friends paci- fism botany music travel a dance at Broadmoor…or life at Ham Spray where she had first joined Ralph Partridge Carrington and Lytton Strachey in their strange m?nage ? trois and where now she and Ralph lived on in their very happy marriage with their son Burgo she writes with verve and insight acutely attuned to the nuances of life. Ham Spray and her enduring partnership with Ralph are focal points in these engross- ing beautifully written diaries. Here they were surrounded by the Wiltshire Downs with their woods flowers and ‘the subdued chuckle of rooks’; here a succession of interesting friends visited and were visited in return: Gerald and Gamel Brenan Eddy Sackville-West and Raymond Mortimer Philip Toynbee Morgan Forster Boris and Maroussa von Anrep … and Robert Kee and Janetta Woolley whose dramatic relationship was ‘as if electricity had been let loose in the house”. While in London there were visits to Cyril Connolly lunch at The Ivy with Duncan Grant David Garnett Julia Strachey and Clive Bell followed by meetings of The Memoir Club for those survivors of Blooms