Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru review – literary couples a breed apart
The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages
February 2021
To Olivia review – a glib exploration of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal's grief
Keeley Hawkes and Hugh Bonneville are decent as the actor and children’s author whose daughter died aged seven, but there is no real howl of pain
June 2016
Digested read
Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother – digested read
Boarding school, war, and hobnobbing in Washington … a brief trawl through the writer’s correspondence before he switched to beastly children’s stories
January 2016
From the Guardian archive
Patricia Neal on life, death and marriage to Roald Dahl
The Guardian, 6 January 1971: ‘She laughs with a barmaid vitality that never suggests the way life has mauled her’
May 2014
The 10 best ...
The 10 best Greyhound bus moments
As the American coach company turns 100, Guy Lodge chooses its 10 best celebrations in film, art and song
