Fed up with Ibiza
Jenny Turner: Sybille Bedford, 1 April 2021
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life
by Selina Hastings.
Chatto, 432 pp., £35, November 2020,978 1 78474 113 6 Show More
by Selina Hastings.
Chatto, 432 pp., £35, November 2020,
“... Bedford through Mexico for her first book, The Sudden View (1953; since renamed A Visit to Don Otavio) was herself acclaimed, in her own circles, as a polymath and raconteuse. The story of Murphy’s talents, and how thoroughly she soused them, is told in Cohen’s marvellous All We Know: Three Lives (2012), through which, as Terry Castle ... ”