The Noel Coward Diaries Author:Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley Excellent condition. Dustcover has a tear on back at the bottom right corner, but a clear plastic cover protecting dustcover has protected it. Pages are clean and tight. No markings or dog ears. We have a no-pets, non-smoking home. — The back cover says "These remarkable diaries of war and peace, England and America, work and play, plays and pl... more »ayers, at last provide the missing pieces in the Coward jigsaw....Their scope is social, political, historical and theatrical, and their cast of characters ranges from Churchill and Mountbatten through Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh to Marilyn Monroe, Harold Pinter and the Beatles. Through the clipped, caustic, often self-mocking tone of the diaries, which were in effect a series of letters from Noel to his own inner self, comes a marvellously funny, touching and revealing account of three decades in the life of the greatest theatrical entertainer of the century."« less