Misbehavin’
Susannah Clapp, 23 July 1987
A Life with Alan: The Diary of A.J.P. Taylor’s Wife, Eva, from 1978 to 1985
by Eva Haraszti Taylor.
Hamish Hamilton, 250 pp., £14.95, June 1987,0 241 12118 3 Show More
by Eva Haraszti Taylor.
Hamish Hamilton, 250 pp., £14.95, June 1987,
The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves
by Jocelyn Rickards.
Weidenfeld, 172 pp., £14.95, May 1987,0 297 79119 2 Show More
by Jocelyn Rickards.
Weidenfeld, 172 pp., £14.95, May 1987,
The Beaverbrook Girl
by Janet Aitken Kidd.
Collins, 240 pp., £12.95, May 1987,0 00 217602 5 Show More
by Janet Aitken Kidd.
Collins, 240 pp., £12.95, May 1987,
“... she finds Mrs Taylor taking photographs of snails copulating, and Alan Taylor – who since John Betjeman’s death has styled himself ‘the nation’s Parkinsonist’ – lying on the floor recovering from delirium. The diarist comments: ‘Cynthia just did not know what to say: snail sexuality in the garden, delirious dreams – and from outside, the ... ”