John Clifford Mortimer

PM finished this book in spring this year, and again dedicated it to her second husband, John Mortimer . It became a successful, award-winning film, with a script by Harold Pinter and starring Anne Bancroft

PM published her third novel, The Bright Prison, again with Michael Joseph , again dedicated to her husband, John Mortimer .

The same day that her first divorce came through, Penelope Dimont married her second husband, the young, up-and-coming barrister and writer John Mortimer .

PM was granted a divorce from John Mortimer . She found the ending of this second marriage hard to bear.

A recent biographer of John Mortimer , PM 's second husband, says that they first met when he was only a boy, that their flirtatious relationship became sexual while she was pregnant by Swingler, and...

The novel was a Book Society choice, and received accolades from reviewers for its brilliantly successful attack on . . . the spiritual and physical relationship of married life.John Betjeman called it...

The idea went back to the Conservative budget that spring, a time when groups of this kind were expected to be Tory rather than Labour. People involved included John Mortimer , Anthony Howard , Germaine Greer

This searing account of [an] increasingly dreadful marriage, which is said to have been the first of her seven blatantly autobiographical novels, was almost transparently based on PM 's own. The barrister husband (who...

Meanwhile, however, in 1963 Nottingham Playhouse moved to new premises, and its three directors, Peter Ustinov , John Neville , and Frank Dunlop , commissioned from various writers including SDa series of short sketch...

PM and her husband John Mortimer co-authored a travel book, With Love and Lizards, about a family holiday (with six children from eighteen down to the baby) at Positano in Italy.

This book covers the years from the acceptance of her first novel to her divorce from John Mortimer .