The Spectator, June 18th, 2005
The last of the vintage wine QUICKSANDS: A MEMOIR by Sybille Bedford Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp. 370, ISBN 0241140374 £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
When Sybille Bedford was born, in Germany in 1911, it was into a world already vanishing: a world where 'people were ruled by their servants', lived in opulent houses (fully staffed by their rulers), ate heavy Edwardian-Germanic cuisine at very frequent intervals, took nothing so vulgar as holidays, but went south for their health, or entrained (taking their own monogrammed linen) for the major European spas. Her own family's values look...
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