James Hale

Even when they lived in a remote spot, the Siepmanns' circle of close literary friends included Nancy Mitford , Graham Greene , Antonia White , and Emily Coleman . When MW became successful as a...

Her editor James Hale said this novel had enchanting sentences, a sense of fun and . . . was not afraid of dealing with intimate issues.

James Hale , who had liked her first novel, said that this one stepped forward, in literary terns, roughly a mile from there. I haven't enjoyed reading a novel so much in years. Its line...

Written slowly during years of depression following her second husband's death, this novel stems from a suicide plan which, in the hot summer of 1976, she remembered carefully working out years before: a hot day...

This title had been used by several other novelists. MW had written about Bolt under the title My Hero, in a series carried by the Independent. Her advance for this novel was £30,000...