Good Company: Diaries, 1967-70
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Synopsis
Good Company opens up Frances Partridge's life between 1967 and 1970, as she attempts 'to get a better seat on [my] bicycle'. Confronted by times of great adversity, she refuses to indulge in self pity. A patient listener to other people's troubles, she can also be pungently outspoken in her criticism of her friends and their beliefs, in the name of truth - 'the only thing I cling to' . Her thirst for travel and her love of her friends are inexhaustible: in this volume she goes to Sicily with Rosamond Lehmann, to Spain to visit Gerald Brenan after the death of his wife, the American poetess Gamel Woolsey, to Italy with Bunny Garnett and to Cyprus with Heywood and Anne Hill.
Book details
Published
01/04/1999
Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
ISBN
9780753805480
Publisher and industry reviews
UK Kirkus review
'I love the stuff life's made of', writes Frances Partridge in the new volume of her lively diaries. In Other People she was desolate after the deaths of her husband, Ralph, and their son, Burgo. Now she picks up the threads of a life still full of friends, travel, books, paintings and music. Gallant survivor of the Bloomsbury Group (now in her 90s), she is indomitable, determined to continue living a full life. Good friends sustain her - clearly a good friend herself - and she has a tireless interest in their doings, both old and young. Several Stracheys, including the whingeing Julia, are here, and the young include Frances Partridge's granddaughter Sophie and Sundry Garnetts. 'Good company' is evoked with humour, a keen eye, and wisdom. (Kirkus UK)
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