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...cynicism. Frayn's novels, notably Sweet Dreams and Towards the End of the Morning, also evoke the slow decay of marriage and depict children as noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory...
...AWARDED. CLAIRE TOMALIN, 69, British biographer, the 2002 Whitbread book-of-the-year award and its purse of $48,000, for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, a portrait of the 17th-century patrician playboy and diarist; in London. Tomalin beat her husband, novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, who won the best-novel prize for his thriller Spies...
...people I've interviewed during my stay in London, a biographer named Claire Tomalin, told me that to this day she converts a restaurant check back into the old pounds, shillings and pence so that she can, as she was raised to do, calculate the tip at two and six (or half a crown) for each pound...
...admit that Tomalin is somebody who converts centigrade temperature into Fahrenheit before she ventures out of the house and is widely suspected of having written her recently published biography of Jane Austen in longhand...
...daughter Mary. Wollstonecraft died of septicemia eleven days later. The final indignity was more ironic. When Godwin published his memoirs of Mary, he was honest about her love affairs, suicide attempts and pregnancies but apparently misunderstood the meaning of her life and death. He wrote about her, as Biographer Tomalin observes, "as the female Werther, a romantic and tragic heroine," ignoring her intellectual development and failing even to appraise her feminist ideas...