Letters of Noel Coward

"A publishing event! The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable Noel Coward, a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and age - from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond." "There are letters about his productions of Bitter Sweet ... Cavalcade ... In Which We Serve ... Brief Encounter ... Private Lives, etc ... about his activities during World War II (he was a spy for the British government along with co-conspirator Cary Grant) ... about the move to make him a knight that was endorsed in a personal letter from King George VI and blocked by Winston Churchill. Here are letters to and from his beloved mother, Violet ... his longtime set and costume designer, Gladys Calthrop ... his traveling companion from the 1930s on, Lord Amherst ... and his business manager and one-time lover, Jack Wilson, in which he reveals his "secret heart."" "Profoundly savvy, witty, loving, bitchy, and often surprisingly moving, The Letters of Noel Coward gives us "Destiny's Tot" at his crackling best. An irresistible portrait of a time, of the man himself, and of the world he lived in and enchanted."--BOOK JACKET.Coward, Noël is the author of 'Letters of Noel Coward ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780375423031 and ISBN 0375423036.