Facades

First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century''s most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, they moulded the scene of the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and in Cyril Connolly''s words, ''had they not been there a whole area of life would have been missing.'' Pic...