Mark Brown at the Guardian offers a piece on the sale of the late, great thriller writer Ian Fleming's letters to his late wife Ann.
An extraordinary stash of letters that shine a light on the tangled relationship between the James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his wife, Ann, from their intense and secret affair to the bitter end of their marriage, are to appear at auction.
Sotheby’s is selling more than 160 letters between the
couple, written over 20 years. Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in books and
manuscripts at the auction house, said the letters in their scope and scale
provided what “must surely be an unmatchable record of the life of the author
as his fortunes changed”.
They also provide insight into the rise of Bond.
Heaton said it was no coincidence that Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino
Royale, in the year of his marriage.
… Heaton said the letters were
packed with stories of high society, travel, love of nature and gossip.
“They are quite something, it has been a real treat,”
he said. “They are an extraordinary read because Ian Fleming is pretty much
incapable of writing a dull sentence.”
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piece via the below link:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/extraordinary-letters-between-ian-fleming-and-wife-to-be-sold
Reading your heading, for a moment I thought someone was about to sell his wife.
ReplyDeleteHe, like most husbands, might have wished at times that was possible - Ha.
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