Quicksands: A Memoir - Tapa dura

In a narrative memoir, the literary luminary and author of A Legacy and A Visit to Don Otavio offers a the moving culmination to a sensuous, harrowing, and remarkable life that the author has narrated in her fiction and nonfiction. 30,000 first printing.

Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. in 1953, she made her literary debut with A Visit to Don Otavio, and has since published eight other books - including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature. Ms. Bedford lived in London where she passed away in February 2006.