What was it with those two? We need wonder no more. Her husband would, you’d have to imagine, have responded with a robust Anglo-Saxonism.Īnd there’s the reason that this book is so interesting: we did keep wondering, all of us. ‘Keep wondering.’ Excellent phrase: curt, witty, and just abrupt enough to see off a line of inquiry without giving offence. Man, hopefully, at the end: ‘Just one more question, what is Harold Pinter like about the house, all those pauses and enigmatic statements, I’ve always wondered?’ Me, briskly: ‘Keep wondering.’ She records her final exchange with the interviewer in the tersely effective style of the diaries from which this book is adapted: Towards the end of 1979, Antonia Fraser gave an interview to the Washington Post in connection with her book Charles II (renamed ‘Royal Charles’ so as not to confuse a sequel-bombarded American public).
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