Philip Toynbee

Jessica , the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as...

RL 's Epilogue relates her own anxiety, on the day the book was first published, about its probable reception. She was flooded with relief, joy, gratitude, at finding both Cyril Connolly and Philip Toynbee

This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious.The Times responded with a front-page article (anonymous, as all...

In an Observer review written shortly after the novel's reprinting in 1978,Philip Toynbee (an acquaintance of JS ) suggested that the observer is so sharp-eyed and so delicate-tongued that her book reveals...