Dearest Jane...: My Father's Life and Letters - Softcover

Jane Torday and her father are perfect companions, and this is a life in letters as never before - often hilarious, occasionally objectionable, ever engaging, original and always honest. This book is like an old-fashioned Fleet Street lunch, and you will rise from the table both light-headed and wonderfully indulged (Simon Garfield)

A tender, hilarious, perceptive and sometimes painfully honest account of a daughter's love for her father, this latest addition to the Mortimer family correspondence comes from Dear Lupin's 'bossy elder sister'. Every family should have one. Jane Torday, though her book depends on the wit and wisdom of letters from her Dad, is a natural writer with a strong sense of narrative drive. As a portrait of a family - mother Nidnod, father Roger, siblings Lupin and Lumpy, it is sharply observed as well as memorably affectionate. Above all, it is Roger Mortimer who is the star of the show. His final request: 'I don't want a memorial service, just a quick fry up.' Fabulous stuff (Elizabeth Luard)

Readers will love [Jane Torday's] book ... Roger Mortimer was far too beautiful a writer for his best work to have stayed in a box (The Times)

Another golden hoard of correspondence from that epistolary genius... (Roger Mortimer, Tatler)

One of publishing's least expected success stories (Spectator)