The Rainbow Comes and Goes

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.