Allanah Harper

It was dedicated to Allanah Harper , and reprinted in a Penguin edition the following year. Just as she had aimed to make her travel-book a novel, SB said she had set out here to...

SB said she grew up with very little knowledge of people her own age, and in friendships and love affairs tended to seek out those of at least ten years older than herself. She...

Allanah Harper , who was to become a lifelong friend, first heard ES recite and was deeply impressed.

SB told the travel-writer Bruce Chatwin (who wrote an introduction for it) that this light and poetic book was (of course) a novel as well as a piece of travel writing. She...