IN TEARING HASTE: LETTERS BETWEEN DEBORAH DEVONSHIRE AND PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR [SIGNED BY DEBORAH DEVONSHIRE]

DEVONSHIRE, Deborah, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Charlotte Mosley [Ed.]

ISBN 10: 0719568587 / ISBN 13: 9780719568589

Published by John Murray, London, 2008

About this Item

8vo. pp xiii, [iii], 390. Colour illustrated dust jacket with 'signed copy' sticker. Publisher's blue boards lettered in silver at spine. Illustrated in black and white. Signed by Deborah Devonshire at the title page.ISBN: 9780719568589 Very good indeed, a little rubbed at spine ends. In very good dust jacket with some light surface rubbing and small mark near foot of spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN TEARING HASTE: LETTERS BETWEEN DEBORAH DEVONSHIRE AND PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR [SIGNED BY DEBORAH DEVONSHIRE]
• Publisher: John Murray, London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719568587
• ISBN 13: 9780719568589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, in Ireland. This halcyon stay sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of highly entertaining letters.

There can rarely have been such contrasting styles: Debo, unashamed philistine and self-professed illiterate, darts from subject to subject, dashing off letters but hitting the nail on the head again and again without even looking, while Paddy, polyglot, widely-read prose virtuoso, replies in his characteristic fluent, polished manner.

Prose notwithstanding, they have much in common: enjoyment of life, youthful high spirits, generosity and lack of malice. There are glimpses of President Kennedy's inauguration, weekends at Sandringham, filming with Erroll Flynn and, above all, of life at Chatsworth, which Debo spent much of her life restoring, and of Kardamyli, the home that Paddy built in his beloved Greece.

About the Author

Charlotte Mosley lives in Paris and has worked as a publisher and journalist. She is the editor of Love from Nancy, The Letters of Nancy Mitford, The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh and The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters.