Letters Of Noel Coward

"A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable
life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise
and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the
Master that there is." Stephen Fry

"A far more complex figure than the one we thought we knew. Here you get the truly private Noel" Sheridan Morley

With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into
the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent
as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a war-time spy(!),
brought him into close contact with the great, the good and the merely
ambitious in film, literature and politics.With letters to and from the
likes of: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother and
many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of
Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examination of the man
himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving and often surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait of a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.