Quicksands

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 ...