First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xxiii [3] 390. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor, the Duchess of Devonshire and Charlotte Mosley on the title page. Loosely inserted is a printed notice about the launch / signing of the book on 5th September 2008 at 12 noon. Also loosely inserted is a 4 page printed interview with the Duchess of Devonshire and Charlotte Mosley by 'HH' mostly about the genesis of the book. ISBN: 9780719568589 Fine in fine dust wrapper.

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Titel: IN TEARING HASTE - LETTERS BETWEEN DEBORAH DEVONSHIRE AND PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR.
Verlag: John Murray,, London,
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0719568587
ISBN-13: 9780719568589
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signedes

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In 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, in Ireland. This halcyon stay sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of highly entertaining letters. There can rarely have been such contrasting styles: Debo, unashamed philistine and self-professed illiterate, darts from subject to subject, dashing off letters but hitting the nail on the head again and again without even looking, while Paddy, polyglot, widely-read prose virtuoso, replies in his characteristic fluent, polished manner. Prose notwithstanding, they have much in common: enjoyment of life, youthful high spirits, generosity and lack of malice. There are glimpses of President Kennedy's inauguration, weekends at Sandringham, filming with Erroll Flynn and, above all, of life at Chatsworth, which Debo spent much of her life restoring, and of Kardamyli, the home that Paddy built in his beloved Greece.

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In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived - mostly in Rumania - until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO and was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire was brought up in Oxfordshire. In 1950 her husband Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, inherited estates in Yorkshire and Ireland, as well as Chatsworth, the family seat in Derbyshire, and Deborah became chatelaine and housekeeper of one of England's greatest and best-loved houses. Following her husband's death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth estate. She died in 2014.

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