**A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2021** 'A fascinating document,
a window on to a lost world of glamour, grandeur and snobbery . . .
an elegy, sad and comical, to a passing era' Craig Brown, MAIL ON
SUNDAY 'I got as caught up in these distant but strangely evocative
events as Vickers did . . . delicious in its way, recreating a lost
world' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, THE TIMES 'A luxuriant trawl through
the recovered past . . . extraordinary book' John Walsh, SUNDAY
TIMES 'A quite brilliant record of a fading social and artistic
milieu . . . a world to which Vickers is an unrivalled cicerone'
Matthew Sturgis, THE OLDIE 'Vickers' diaries bristle with
injudicious indiscretion...it is no small compliment to say that
the biographer is here the equal of his subject' Michael Arditti,
THE SPECTATOR 'Beaton himself was one of the finest 20th-century
diarists. It is no small compliment to say that the biographer is
here the equal of his subject' THE SPECTATOR 'Illuminating and
brilliantly scurrilous' Marcus Field, THE STANDARD 'Scintillating'
DAILY MAIL 'When Mr Vickers has his eye to the keyhole, we see a
secret panorama' Dominic Green, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Vickers -
as ever - is a warm and enthusiastic guide to a nearly lost world'
TATLER.COM The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's
authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with
extraordinary - often legendary - characters in his search for the
real Cecil Beaton. Hugo Vickers's life took a dramatic turn in 1979
when the legendary Sir Cecil Beaton invited him to be his
authorised biographer. The excitement of working with the famous
photographer was dashed only days later when Cecil Beaton died. But
the journey had begun - Vickers was entrusted with Beaton's papers,
diaries and, most importantly, access to his friends and
contemporaries. The resulting book, first published in 1985, was a
bestseller. In Malice in Wonderland, Vickers shares excerpts from
his personal diaries kept during this period. For five years,
Vickers travelled the world and talked to some of the most
fascinating and important social and cultural figures of the time,
including royalty such as the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret,
film stars such as Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews,
writers such as Truman Capote, and photographers such as Irving
Penn and Horst. And not only Beaton's friends - Vickers sought out
the enemies too, notably Irene Selznick. He was taken under the
wings of Lady Diana Cooper, Clarissa Avon and Diana Vreeland. Drawn
into Beaton's world and accepted by its members, Vickers the
emerging biographer also began his own personal adventure. The
outsider became the insider - Beaton's friends became his friends.
Malice in Wonderland is a fascinating portrait of a now disappeared
world, and vividly and sensitively portrays some of its most
fascinating characters as we travel with Vickers on his quest.
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