Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we… - Nina Bawden
I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we…
- Nina Bawden
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. - Nina Bawden
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by th… - Nina Bawden
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by th…
I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. - Nina Bawden
I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. - Nina Bawden
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. - Nina Bawden
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war cam… - Nina Bawden
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war cam…
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. - Nina Bawden
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor. - Nina Bawden
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
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