you had to deal with your feelings, you husband, nick tomlin, who was killed, in the yum kippur war,rible tragedy but you have had ups and downs of extraordinary kind during your marriage and it's tough to write about that? yes. but i saw, i learned something from it. i saw that first of all, probably i shouldn't have married him. we were great friends and lovers and we had fun together but we were not really soul mates. and every time he ran off with a blonde and i was left with the children it had a good effect on me, because i thought, i've got to cope, i've got make my life, i've got to get a betterjob. and if you look at my life, when i came to look, i saw that each time he did something really dreadful, i grew and progressed so that most sadly, i mean it was terrible when he was killed, but i had in a way been prepared to cope. and in dealing with your own feelings at the time, in the 50s when you were a student through the 60s the tumultuos 70s, fleet street, the literary world, it must be difficult to write about friends and friendships with real honesty? well, i think my fri

you had to deal with your feelings, you husband, nick tomlin, who was killed, in the yum kippur war,your marriage and it's tough to write about that? yes. but i saw, i learned something from it. i saw that first of all, probably i shouldn't have married him. we were great friends and lovers and we had fun together but we were not really soul mates. and every time he ran off with a blonde and i was left with the children it had a good effect on me, because i thought, i've got to cope, i've got make my life, i've got to get a betterjob. and if you look at my life, when i came to look, i saw that each time he did something really dreadful, i grew and progressed so that most sadly, i mean it was terrible when he was killed, but i had in a way been prepared to cope. and in dealing with your own feelings at the time, in the 50s when you were a student through the 60s the tumultuos 70s, fleet street, the literary world, it must be difficult to write about friends and friendships with real honesty? well, i think my friendships with terry kilmartin who, was literary editor of the observer, wh