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Malice in Wonderland - My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton (Paperback)
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Malice in Wonderland - My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton (Paperback)
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'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 member
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