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Loading... The Company We Kept (original 1986; edition 1995)by Barbara Kaye
Work InformationThe Company We Kept [biography] by Barbara Kaye (1986)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Chronicles the career of antiquarian book seller Percy Muir and his wife (the author) from 1938 through the end of WW II as they move from London to Essex. Describes famous libraries, authors, and friends (including Ian Fleming) and the workings of a famous London dealer. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"In 1938, after three years of sharing a house in London with a moody, elderly Russian who was translating Tchekhov, Barbara Kaye and her husband, Percy Muir, moved to a Tudor cottage in north-west Essex, in joyful anticipation of at last having a home to themselves. While she coped with a young daughter, domestic crises, a garden and chickens - and tried to write a novel - he commuted to London to carry on his antiquarian book business at Elkin Mathews in Duke Street. Eighteen months later, on the eve of war, the business and a member of staff joined the exodus of evacuees from London and were found house-room, along with parents and a dog, in the Muirs' draughty and already over-crowded cottage." "In this entertaining and very personal sequel to Percy Muir's Minding My Own Business, Barbara Kaye describes the struggle to keep the firm of Elkin Mathews going while, at the same time the Muirs gave hospitality to an egotistical author engaged on a book on women, an eccentric poet, the originator of James Bond, and other friends who came for temporary refuge from the Blitz."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)942.084History and Geography Europe England and Wales England 1837- Edward VIII 1936-1952LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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