Letters of Noël Coward

<i>'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.<br/>Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and<br/>helpful interpolations of Barry Day the soundest authority on the<br/>Master that there is.'</i> Stephen Fry<br/><i> 'Precise witty remarkably observed and gloriously English' </i>Dame Judi Dench<br/><br/><br/> <i>'Barry Day's analysis is both perceptive and irresistible'</i> Lord Richard Attenborough<br/><br/>With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished -<br/>this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary<br/>figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor writer composer <br/>producer and even as a war-time spy(!) brought him into close contact<br/>with the great the good and the merely ambitious in film literature<br/>and politics.With letters to and from the likes of: George Bernard<br/>Shaw Virginia Woolf Winston Churchill Greta Garbo (she wrote asking<br/>him to marry her) Marlene Dietriech Ian Fleming Graham Greene <br/>Evelyn Waugh Fred Astaire Charlie Chaplin FD Roosevelt the Queen<br/>Mother and many more the picture that emerges is a series of vivid<br/>sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships and a re-examination<br/>of the man himself. <br/>Deliciously insightful witty perfectly bitchy <br/>wise loving and often surprisingly moving this extraordinary<br/>collection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait of<br/>a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century from<br/>the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.