Books > Biography
|
Buy Now
An Eccentric Marriage - Living with Jim (Paperback)
Loot Price: R194
Discovery Miles 1 940
You Save: R31
(14%)
|
|
An Eccentric Marriage - Living with Jim (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
List price R225
Loot Price R194
Discovery Miles 1 940
You Save R31 (14%)
Expected to ship within 4 - 8 working days
|
Jim Bailey, son of millionaire mining magnate Abe Bailey, achieved
renown as a WW2 hero, author and proprietor of DRUM magazine. In
1950, Barbara, then a girl of 12, met the dashing 23-year old Jim
at his sister's house in Illovo. That night she wrote in her diary:
I have met the most beautiful person and I am going to marry him.
This is the marriage charted here, in diary entries spanning 50
years. Barbara's story is funny, whimsical and sad in turn. We get
to know Barbara intimately, along with her eccentric family (she is
artist Beezy and restaurateur Prospero's mother) and her wide
coterie of famous and fabulous friends. The cast includes such
luminaries as Yehudi Menuhin, Bruce Chatwin, the Oppenheimers,
Orson Welles, Helen Suzman, Thomas Packenhan, James Fox, Linda
Chalker and Dame Margot Fonteyn. Barbara chronicles the course of
her first marriage, to Jeremy Taylor, and her subsequent liaison
with her true love, Jim. Jim Baily, who was not above attending
SAAN board meetings in his bare feet, was probably one of the only
true South African eccentrics. Their life together was not only
full of music and laughter and hunting parties; it also contained
profound sadness. Their son Bundy was killed in a car crash, and
Barbara writes movingly about losing a child. The diary ends with
her nursing Jim as he lay dying.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.