![]() ![]() The Tomalin household even inspired a cartoon strip in The Listener, The Stringalongs of NW1, a parodying trendy literary life.īut in 1973, the year she finished the book, her husband was killed by a missile while reporting for the Sunday Times from the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur war. Her first professional writing jobs came in the form of newspaper book reviews, and she agreed to write a biography, of radical writer Mary Wollstonecraft, after having an article on her published. It made me laugh so hard that I went into labour," she said. ''In the summer of 1970 my husband was away in New York and I'd been to the theatre with my mother and daughter, to see a tremendously funny play by Michael Frayn. ![]() In a strange twist of fate, her future husband, Michael Frayn, sent her into labour the fifth time. Another was paralysed from the waist down. She had five children with first husband Nick Tomalin, one of whom died before reaching one month old. Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades ![]()
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