A Corner of Paradise A love story (with the usual reservations)
Synopsis
In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences – ones to baffle many, not least themselves – until her death, aged 78.Both were writers, though they came from opposite ends of the social register – she an Admiral’s daughter, he the descendant of unruly Cockney eccentrics. She was by nature a solitary, while he was loud, incurably facetious – and needy. From a tiny Harrogate terrace, to the deeply un-picturesque French farmhouse where they spent their summers, Brian and Liz battled their way to a heart-rending goodbye in an Oxford hospital ward. In many ways, their partnership was ‘an exercise in asymmetry’ – yet, despite the conflicts, they emerge in this deeply-felt memoir as a couple who were lucky enough to find their corner of paradise in one another.Book details
- Author:
- Brian Thompson
- ISBN:
- 9781448156337
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780099581864
- Publisher:
- Random House
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2018-08-23
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Copyright by:
- Brian Thompson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Biographies and Memoirs, Nonfiction