Quicksands

The moral of 'Quicksands' is at once comprehensive and striking. "

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

Her memoir, Quicksands 2005, revived interest in the writer, and her elegant, insightful work.

An obituary for Sybille Bedford Jenny Davidson 2006

It's a review of Quicksands: A Memoir, but it covers her whole career in a really admirable and thoughtful way--I do love Hollinghurst, he's on my very short list of most highly regarded writers.

A great essay by Alan Hollinghurst Jenny Davidson 2005

You could, for example, read her entire output without ever discovering her name, that is, the name of her family, which she relinquished by making a marriage of convenience in 1936; and it is only in her new memoir, Quicksands, published in her ninety-fifth year, that she satisfies half a century of curiosity about the identity of Mr. Bedford.

Child of the Century Hollinghurst, Alan 2005

It's a review of Quicksands: A Memoir, but it covers her whole career in a really admirable and thoughtful way--I do love Hollinghurst, he's on my very short list of most highly regarded writers.

Archive 2005-07-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

Quicksands of a similar nature prevented our reaching a small creek running under a high craggy ridge of hills; we therefore stopped at the edges of them, every body completely worn out.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

"Quicksands -- just what I told you about," answered Bud.

The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker

Then came the memorable evening when Lily Dallam gave a dinner in honour of Honora, her real introduction to Quicksands.

A Modern Chronicle — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

Dallam, model for all husbands: to Sidney, who had had as much of an idea of buying in Quicksands as of acquiring a Scotch shooting box.

A Modern Chronicle — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

"I'm sorry, madam," he said, after a little while, which seemed like half an hour to Honora, "but they've had a fire in the Kingston exchange, and the Quicksands line is out of order."

A Modern Chronicle — Complete Winston Churchill 1909