A Chill in the Air

'Origo's diaries, trenchantly and pithily written, are a glory' Spectator Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country wo...