In QUICKSANDS : A Memoir -LRB- Counterpoint , $ 14.95 -RRB- , Sybille Bedford -LRB- 1911-2006 -RRB- , whose accomplishments included novels , a travel book about Mexico and a biography of Aldous Huxley , reflects on her childhood in Germany , her years of crisscrossing Europe in the late-20th century , and her literary colleagues and friends .