{"product_id":"9780571287291","title":"'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'Weep No More'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe expression 'femme fatale' could have been coined for Barbara Skelton. She had many admirers - Peter Quennell, Feliks Topolski, Cyril Connolly, King Farouk, George Weidenfeld, Derek Jackson, the list is not exhaustive - some of whom she married. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTears Before Bedtime\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWeep No More\u003c\/b\u003e were first published separately in 1987 and 1989; they then appeared in one paperback volume in 1993. It is in this form they are being reissued in Faber Finds\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Jeremy Lewis, her literary executor, puts it these memoirs 'combine waspishness and wit in equal measure. She had a keen eye for the absurd, and a ruthless ability to skewer friends and foes alike with an exact and colourful turn of phrase ...'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Uniquely savage memoirs of rackety highbrow life ... One feels Balzac is the novelist who would best do justice to all this in fictional form.' Anthony Powell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Provides some of the funniest reading I can remember.' Auberon Waugh, \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The two volumes together make a memorable portrait. She deserves to have her likeness preserved and by a writer as good as herself.' Frank Kermode, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106469003504,"sku":"9780571287291","price":20.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571287291_p0.jpg?v=1763718783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571287291","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}