Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780719568589
ISBN: 0719568587
Label: John Murray
Manufacturer: John Murray
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 04, 2008
Publisher: John Murray
Sales Rank: 4993
Studio: John Murray

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Rating: - Pure Poetry
I had already read `The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh' which had also been edited by Charlotte Mosley, who had made such a superb job of it that I requested `In Tearing Haste', secure in the knowledge that I wouldn't be disappointed - and of course, I wasn't.

The letters by `Debo', Duchess of Devonshire bear all of the Mitford touches - the strangulated vowels, as in `Lorst' and `Gorn' - and the hilarious peremptory commands - `Do admit'! For one who states she never reads ... Read More

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Rating: - name dropping
This book received ravishing reviews in The Telegraph, so much so that I was tempted to buy it. What a mistake. It is nothing but cloying endearments and decades of name dropping! Now I don't know what to do with it.

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Rating: - Charlotte Mosley has hit Mitford pay dirt again!
I gave a golden glowing review of "Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters," and, using gold-mining metaphors, Charlotte Mosley (married to a 'Mitford' nephew) has tapped the precious Mitford treasure pit again with "In Tearing Haste," a compilation of splendid letters exchanged over many years by her aunt-by-marriage, Deborah (Duchess of) Devonshire (née Mitford), and her fine and faithful friend, the writer and World War II hero, Patrick (Paddy) Leigh Fermor. (The relationship is supposed to have ... Read More

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Rating: - Such warmth of characters and such humour - Must read 2008!!
If you have read and loved Charlotte Mosley's wonderful Mitford Letters this will definitely not disappoint!!

Their writing styles, and indeed life styles are markedly different - Paddy's erudite, descriptive, precise and exuberant letters serve to remind us why he is often considered the greatest travel writer of our time. His wonderful descriptions of his adventures bring to life so many different places - from Devon to the Andes to Eastern Europe and back to Derbyshire. He tells stories ... Read More

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