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Tim O'Brien

466. Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence


This is a very good biography of Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose Cazalet novels I enjoyed a year or 2 ago, and who was married to Peter Scott, the naturalist and latterly Kingsley Amis.

It is a very honest and well put together portrait of a deeply lonely and needy woman and, particularly in the passage dealing with the deterioration of her marriage to Amis, of how a marriage can just fall apart, the initial attractions twisting over time into irritations.

Very good, worth reading again just for its range and depth.


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