Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110097 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Seven, Sunday Telegraph, December 11, 2005
"Charming, witty and utterly irresistible, they give brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared."

The Daily Telegraph, November 26 2005
'gives a lovely taste of an era now long gone.'

The Sunday Times, January 1 2006
'a charm and immediacy that other writers' letters don't always possess'

Customer Reviews

A forgotten era
This book takes you back to a time ,to our not so distant past,one without emails and text messages.To when letter writing was all and people took time to keep in touch with their friends.It reminded me how civilized letter writing was and how wonderful it is to receive a letter from a friend. I kept looking at the photographs on the front cover of the book, to help me set the scene in my mind of Heywood(who seemed quite handsome), writing his letters to Nancy in the bookshop and Nancy in her Paris appartment scribbling away her thoughts. It astounded me how many great people they both knew and how they spoke of them all so fondly. eg dinner with the Queen and princess Margaret. I know that when you are in certain circles, then your acquaintences are bound to be your peers but to Nancy and Heywood never give you the feeling that they would "Name Drop" as a celebrity of today might, whilst writing their memoirs. Some of the comments made me laugh out loud and the final pages of letters where Nancy is quite clearly in a lot of pain were very sad. I also thought it was horrid to read that HH and HB didn't attend her funeral.