- Published: 12 November 2020
- ISBN: 9781473546035
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
Sybille Bedford
An Appetite for Life
- Published: 12 November 2020
- ISBN: 9781473546035
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
An extraordinary story
Laura Freeman, The Times
Comprehensive
Cressida Connolly, Literary Review
A wonderful biography... Elegant, deft and restrained
Sara Wheeler, Spectator
A fantastic read... brings a fundamentally [...] private woman out into the light
India Knight, Sunday Times
I found myself gripped from the first page to the last, astonished by the pace of revelation
Barnaby Rogerson, Oldie
[A] richly entertaining biography
Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Daily Mail, *Book of the Year*
Beautifully written
Week
Scrupulous [...] remind[s] us that Bedford had a second string to her writerly bow
Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
Rivetingly entertaining... A wonderful chronicle of one life [and] a depiction of a small, vivid, condensed world gone forever
Lucy Lethbridge, Tablet
Selina Hastings's wonderful, gossipy biography is a gem
Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*
[An] elegantly written, intimate biography... This is a remarkably candid, minutely detailed and compulsively readable book about a life lived to the full
Rebecca Wallersteiner, Lady
So good, so full of naughty detail, evocation and grudging affection that you can enjoy it without ever having to read the works of Sybille Bedford
Barry Humphries, Oldie
Gracefully written, largely sympathetic, and very gossipy
Elissa Altman, Avenue
[Bedford's life is] elegantly related by Selina Hastings
Brooke Allen, New York Times
Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers
Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph