A well-researched and highly readable book ... Geniesse's eye for evocative and amusing detail is striking.
Anne Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement
An admiring and affectionate book .. .It is one of its pleasures that it both allows Freya Stark to have her full say and yet sets her in the real world to which she belonged.
Caroline Moorehead, Spectator
Jane Fletcher Geniesse's Freya Stark supplies a fascinating individual thread in the tapestry of twentieth-century Middle Eastern history ... She has achieved, in the end, an admirable focus, at once critical ...
Colin Thubron
A well-researched and highly readable book ... Geniesse's eye for evocative and amusing detail is striking.
Anne Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement
An admiring and affectionate book .. .It is one of its pleasures that it both allows Freya Stark to have her full say and yet sets her in the real world to which she belonged.
Caroline Moorehead, Spectator
Jane Fletcher Geniesse's Freya Stark supplies a fascinating individual thread in the tapestry of twentieth-century Middle Eastern history ... She has achieved, in the end, an admirable focus, at once critical ...
Colin Thubron
A well-researched and highly readable book ... Geniesse's eye for evocative and amusing detail is striking.
Anne Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement
An admiring and affectionate book .. .It is one of its pleasures that it both allows Freya Stark to have her full say and yet sets her in the real world to which she belonged.
Caroline Moorehead, Spectator
Jane Fletcher Geniesse's Freya Stark supplies a fascinating individual thread in the tapestry of twentieth-century Middle Eastern history ... She has achieved, in the end, an admirable focus, at once critical ...