In Tearing Haste

'A feast for reading... An enchanting book' * Irish Examiner * 'Celebrates everything positive about life and friendship' * Independent on Sunday * 'Age never withers the mischievous, bantering pleasure of these letters,' * Observer Review * 'The effect is intensely touching,' * The London Review of Books * 'Last autumn's literary non-fiction hit' * Bookseller * 'Highly entertaining...as full of fizz and conviviality as a glass of champagne' * Metro * 'Highly engaging exchanges of mutual joie de vivre' * The Times * 'Bursting with wit and conviviality' * The Observer * 'Age never withers the mischievous, bantering pleasure of these letters' * Observer Review * 'The effect is intensely touching' * The London Review of Books * 'Highly entertaining . . . as full of fizz and conviviality as a glass of champagne' * Metro * 'Last autumn's literary non-fiction hit' * Bookseller * 'Captivating collection ... Deborah's life [is] brilliantly encapsulated -and parodied- in her more succinct letters ... their exchanges achieve the goal of all good correspondents: to bring out the best in one another' * Anglo Hellenic Review * 'An impressive array of personalities and dramas' * Good Book Guide * 'Sparkling' * The Times * 'This marvellous correspondence celebrates two of the most important things in the world, courage and friendship' * Spectator * 'Part of the charm of this impeccably edited correspondence is a sense of the lacrimae rerum, of a vanished world of high romance' * Daily Telegraph * 'Altogether delicious . . . Charlotte Mosley's editing of these letters is erudite, mischievous and unflawed' * Sunday Telegraph * 'Highly engaging exchanges of mutual joie de vivre' * The Times * 'Packed with gossip, creaky jokes and gadding about...all but the most inverted of snobs will enjoy a cheery time in these pages' * The Independent, Christopher Hirst *