Alan Sharp

Meanwhile she met a Scottish writer, Alan Sharp , and began a relationship with him, although he remained married (to his second wife) and contiued to have affairs with several women at a time. BB

As her marriage was disintegrating, BB made a suicide attempt by gas oven. She heard people coming into the house, turned off the gas, and felt her action was [q]uite stupid, ludicrous, and unwholesome, like...

The title character was said to be based on BB 's lover Alan Sharp .Anna Haycraft , when she saw the first section in draft, insisted that Bainbridge must radically revise it. Choosing...