Sybille Bedford stocking filler and the history of mental

and the history of mental health

As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned

and a heart-stopping debut romance

This is a story of joy and triumph

and both authors being educators themselves

Sybille Bedford stocking filler and the history of mentalAn Appetite for Life. The first full and intimate biography of writer and bon viveur Sybille Bedford. Born in Germany to aristocratic parents, Sybille Bedford's (1911 2006) life contained all the grand feeling and seismic event of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death, as well as the need to write and rescue something from this wreckage. Openly gay, Bedford once said 'I wish I'd written more books and spent less