{"product_id":"sybille-bedford","title":"Sybille Bedford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers'' Simon Heffer, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSybille 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 \u003ci\u003elitterateur\u003c\/i\u003e, fell victim to a debilitating morphine addiction. A \u003ci\u003ebon viveur\u003c\/i\u003e, she roamed from country to country in search of fresh experience, with ear and eye attuned to her surroundings, typewriter at the ready. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of intense friendships (Aldous Huxley, Martha Gellhorn and Elizabeth Jane Howard among them), a fierce commitment to the craft of writing, as well as an insatiable appetite for love and sex, Sybille Bedford blazed her own path in her life and her art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Selina Hastings'' wonderful, gossipy biography is a gem, revealing not just the shy writer, but also the colourful, turbulent 20th-century literary world in which she lived'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A wonderful biography'' Sara Wheeler, \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''An extraordinary story'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A richly entertaining biography'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312762724734,"sku":"NW9781784704377","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784704377.jpg?v=1778589553","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/sybille-bedford","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}