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Quicksands

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780140279764

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 500g

  • RRP: £15.99

Quicksands

  • A Memoir

Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and non-fiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists' set on the Côte d'Azur of the 1920s, through lovers, mentors, seducers and friends, and from genteel yet shabby poverty to relative comfort in London's Chelsea. Whether evoking the simple sumptuousness of a home-cooked meal or tracing the heart-rending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780140279764

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 500g

  • RRP: £15.99

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About the Author

Sybille Bedford

Born in Charlottenburg and educated privately in England, Italy and France, Sybille Bedford is also the author of A FAVOURITE OF THE GODS, JIGSAW and A COMPASS ERROR. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of PEN. She was awarded the OBE in 1981 and a C.Lit in 1994.

Sybille Bedford

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