Ham Spray and Frances's enduring partnership with Ralph are focal points in these beautifully written diaries. Here they were surrounded by the Wiltshire downs; here a succession of interesting friends visited and were visited in return: Gerald Brenan, Raymond Mortimer, and Robert Kee whose dramatic relationship was 'as if electricity had been let loose in the house'. While in London there were visits to Cyril Connolly, lunch at The Ivy with Duncan Grant, Julia Strachey and Clive Bell, followed by meetings of The Memoir Club for those survivors of Bloomsbury. Frances Partridge reveals a life of such warmth, friendship and good fortune that at the close of these diaries it seems almost impossible that death could rob her of the source of such happiness: Ralph.
- ISBN10 0753808013
- ISBN13 9780753808016
- Publish Date 7 October 1999 (first published 7 April 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 May 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 384
- Language English