by Frances Partridge (Author)
Ham Spray and Frances's enduring partnership with Ralph are focal points in these beautifully written diaries. Here they were surrounded by the Wiltshire downs; here a succession of interesting friends visited and were visited in return: Gerald Brenan, Raymond Mortimer, and Robert Kee 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, Julia Strachey and Clive Bell, followed by meetings of The Memoir Club for those survivors of Bloomsbury. Frances Partridge reveals a life of such warmth, friendship and good fortune that at the close of these diaries it seems almost impossible that death could rob her of the source of such happiness: Ralph.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0753808013
ISBN 13: 9780753808016
Book Overview: To be reissued in a brand new livery with all of Frances Partridge's diaries Frances Partridge is now recognised as one of the greatest diarists of the century 'Her outstanding quality as a diarist - her gift for the description... Certainly, there's no living diarist like her' Evening Standard 'Mrs Partridge is the last survivor of the inner core of the Bloomsbury group. Her diaries would be riveting reading even if the story of her personal life had not been so absorbing and dramatic, and even if she were not the gifted writer that she is' The Times 'Frances Partridge's diaries are quietly brilliant: alive to everything' Observer
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