Cooper, Diana – The Bell Bookshop

Rainbow Comes & Goes

Emma — Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Lady Diana Cooper was a star of the early twentieth stage, screen and social scene. This first instalment of her sparkling autobiography tells of her upbringing, her beautiful artistic mother and aristocratic father, her debut into high society and the glittering parties – ‘dancing and extravagance and lashing of wine, and charades and moonlit balconies and kisses’ – which were interrupted with the outbreak of the First World War. This volume ends with Diana’s marriage to the ‘love of her life’, diplomat and politician Duff Cooper.

Trumpets from The Steep

Emma — Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This last volume of Lady Diana Cooper’s memoirs covers the years of the Second World War and its aftermath, when her husband Duff Cooper served as Minister of Information and then in various diplomat posts around the world. We accompany the Coopers on their travels from the Dorchester Hotel during the breathless days of the Blitz, to a happy sojourn farming in Sussex, to Singapore and Algiers and eventual retirement to France, all told with Diana’s unique perspective and enchanting style.

Light Of Common Day

Emma — Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the subject of gossip and adoration as the queen of the ‘Coterie’, an exclusive high society set. Her marriage to Duff Cooper, a rising political star, and her career on the stage and in early silent films only increased her notoriety. Her second volume of autobiography chronicles these years in the run-up to the Second World War, and her adventures as an unconventional hostess, actress, wife and mother are told in typically fast-paced, witty and brilliant style.