A Corner of Paradise - A love story (with the usual reservations)

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.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Thompson
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2014
• EAN: 9780099581864
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958186-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Memoirs, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs