About the Author:
JANE TORDAY was born in London, brought up in Hampshire, worked in London before her first marriage took her to Northumberland where she has lived since 1973. Writing has always been a part of her life, publishing books and articles on food, gardening and social history, alongside her family life and establishing a local enterprise, `The Garden Station'. Her first memoir of her father was `The Coldstreamer and The Canary' in 1995. www.janetorday.com ROGER MORTIMER was born in 1909 and educated at Eton College and Sandhurst. In 1930 he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. In 1940 he fought in the Battle of Belgium and was taken as a POW for the remainder of the war. Racing correspondent for the Sunday Times for almost thirty years, he wrote several classic books on racing. He died in 1991.
Review:
One of publishing's least expected success stories * Spectator * Another golden hoard of correspondence from that epistolary genius... -- Roger Mortimer, Tatler Readers will love [Jane Torday's] book ... Roger Mortimer was far too beautiful a writer for his best work to have stayed in a box * The Times * A tender, hilarious, perceptive and sometimes painfully honest account of a daughter's love for her father, this latest addition to the Mortimer family correspondence comes from Dear Lupin's 'bossy elder sister'. Every family should have one. Jane Torday, though her book depends on the wit and wisdom of letters from her Dad, is a natural writer with a strong sense of narrative drive. As a portrait of a family - mother Nidnod, father Roger, siblings Lupin and Lumpy, it is sharply observed as well as memorably affectionate. Above all, it is Roger Mortimer who is the star of the show. His final request: 'I don't want a memorial service, just a quick fry up.' Fabulous stuff -- Elizabeth Luard Jane Torday and her father are perfect companions, and this is a life in letters as never before - often hilarious, occasionally objectionable, ever engaging, original and always honest. This book is like an old-fashioned Fleet Street lunch, and you will rise from the table both light-headed and wonderfully indulged -- Simon Garfield
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