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Authors: Elizabeth Jane Howard
A. D. Peters (c.1972). I still miss him. He was Danish, although his English was impeccable, and he would never use his first names, so everyone called himPeter Peters.
Jill Balcon and Cecil Day-Lewis, and me, at the christening of their daughter, Tamasin.
Romain Gary and his second wife Jean Seberg.
Arthur Koestler. He possessed an energy the voltage of which would have served at least five ordinary people.
Laurie Lee (c.1955) When he chose, Laurie was a natural entertainer and a natural musician.
At Blomfield Road with Katsika, whom I’d criminally smuggled from Greece.
Kingsley Amis. If I try to think now about the first thing that attracted me to him so much it was his honesty with himself.
With Charlie Chaplin on the set ofA King in New York(c. 1956).
Nicola watching a rider.
In my study at Maida Vale.
With Kingsley at Maida Vale (1964). At last, I thought, life was everything I could ever have hoped for.
With the Fussells and the Keeleys in Greece.
With Rosie Plush, my first cavalier spaniel.
Sargy Mann painting.