Sybille Bedford

''Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers'' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

Sybille Bedford''s life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death. Her father died when she was just fourteen and her mother, a great socialite and litterateur, fell victim to a debilitating morphine addiction. A bon viveur, she...