Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie

Author: Perrick, Penny

Number Of Pages: 288

Details:

Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for the popular biographies of her extraordinary relatives, including Jennie Churchill (Winston's mother) and sculptor Clare Sheridan, was also a most unlikely war heroine. In 1940 Anita volunteered for active service, and by the end of the war she had been awarded the Croix de Guerre for outstanding bravery on the battlefield in France.While Anita always insisted that everything was "delightful and amusing," her life after the war was clouded by destructive love affairs, depression, and domestic and financial chaos.This revealing biography describes the complex character behind the sunny facade she was at pains to project. Drawing on copious correspondence, Penny Perrick brings to life Anita's true anguished self: the intense joy she took in her children, her passionate love of Ireland, her career as a writer and the dramatic family squabbling that resulted from the muddled management of the Castle Leslie. Telling Tales is a scintillating and poignant account of this flamboyant woman.

Reviews:

“A fascinating look at the life of an aristocratic war hero with a dark side” ―Irish Sunday Times“Perrick's spellbinding Telling Tales: The Fabulous Lives of Anita Leslie portrays her subject's shortcomings, but also her qualities” ―The Tablet“Her determination in sometimes grim circumstances to paint the world in sunshine showed the same kind of nonchalant heroism as her

“startling achievements” during the war” ―Irish Times

About the Author:

Penny Perrick, who lived for many years in the west of Ireland, was a fashion editor for Vogue, a columnist on the Sun and The Times and a fiction editor for the Sunday Times. She is also a novelist and the author of Something to Hide, a biography of the poet Sheila Wingfield. Penny lives in London....

EAN: 9781448217212

Release Date: 08-01-2019

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Like New Ships fast! 2019

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

Binding: Paperback