Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman review - an intimate tale of a life in art

This fabulously detailed account of the great collector's treasures, artist friends and the Cambridge art gallery home he built with his wife, Helen, is a fitting testament to his cunning, determination and impeccable taste On New Year's Day 1956, Jim Ede, then 60, wrote to his friend, the painter and poet David Jones, of a "quixotic scheme" he had for the remaining years of his life. Ede, who had been a curator at the Tate Gallery before the second world war, and a pioneering collector of the a...