Must You Go? My LIfe With Harold Pinter

A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and a marvelously insightful account of their years together, beginning with their initial meeting when Fraser was the wife of a member of Parliament and mother of six, and Pinter was married to a distinguished actress. Over the years, they experienced much joy, a shared devotion to their work, crises and laughter, and, in the end, great courage and love as Pinter battled the illness to which he eventually suc#xAD;cumbed on Christmas Eve 2008. Must You Go?is based on Fraser#x19;s recollections and on the diaries she has kept since October 1968. She shares Pinter#x19;s own revelations about his past, as well as observations by his friends. Fraser#x19;s diaries-written by a biographer living with a creative artist and observing the process firsthand-also pro#xAD;vide a unique insight into his writing. Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser lived together from August 1975 until his death thirty-three years later. #x1C;O! call back yesterday, bid time return,#x1D; cries one of the courtiers to Richard II. This is Antonia Fraser#x19;s uniquely compelling way of doing so. From the Hardcover edition.

ANTONIA FRASER is the author of many internation­ally bestselling historical works, including Love and Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola, The Wives of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, and Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. She has received the Wolfson Prize for History, the 2000 Norton Medlicott Medal of Britain’s Historical Association, and the Franco-British Society’s Enid McLeod Literary Prize. She was made a Dame for services to Literature in 2011.