Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1

"A major literary event...an essential part of his oeuvre" Guardian "There is not a page that does not contain a good joke, original insight, deadly accurate description or delicious nugget of gossip... A major literary work, the diaries round off the writer both as man and artist. They are intimate and intensely personal" Independent on Sunday "There is plenty to enjoy in this first volume...Isherwood's is an exemplary twentieth-century life: assured and neurotic, fearless and fretful, generous and small-minded, forgiving and remorsefully judgemental" Financial Times "A pleasure to read... No word is wasted, and the casual-looking sentences create the impression that we are overhearing what is being said" Scotsman "Enthralling...Isherwood...struggles with his demons in spare, luminous and merciless prose" -- Benjamin Evans Sunday Telegraph