A query from the publicist at Virago about exclusivity in research prompted me to look at this afresh. Some first thoughts: obviously there has been some material which only I’ve had access to, handwritten stuff by my mother, etc, but … Continue reading
The photograph of Nancy sitting under a tree which has been used for the jacket dates from 1935, their first summer in Corfu. They were both overwhelmed by the colour and intensity of the place. Larry sent the picture to … Continue reading
This seems like a good image to celebrate the site going live. It was a pleasantly surreal moment, to look up from my morning coffee a few weeks ago and see this happy swine flying over Battersea Power station. A … Continue reading
Have just sent off the corrected manuscript and added in a few more pictures and the final, I hope, version of the Reading On section. As this is at its heart a personal memoir, rather than a scholarly work, I … Continue reading
I’m proof-reading the book backwards, starting with the afterword, on the principle that I’m less likely to get caught up in the narrative flow. But it does make the process somewhat surreal, a life lived backwards. And the final sections … Continue reading
