Must You Go? : My Life with Harold Pinter

from Meggo

I love biographies. I love Antonia Fraser's history studies. So why, then, did I not love this book? It's a "love story for the ages", the story of Antonia Fraser's chance meeting with - then romance and marriage with - playwright and actor Harold Pinter. I suppose I struggled with the selfishnes...

from NovelChatter

Award winning writer Lady Antonia Frasier had "met" playwright Harold Pinter several times before they both found themselves guests at a dinner party on January 8, 1975. Lady Antonia's life would change when, as she was leaving the party, she heard Pinter say to her "Must you go?" These three wor...

from Bookoholic73

This is a very good way to get an insight into somebody´s life without the guilt of reading somebody else´s diary. Well written, an easy, illuminating and for me also inspiring read. Must you go is a moving story of two people who obviously were deeply in love with each other, and managed to have...

from dboydell

Antonia Fraser describes the 33 years she lived with the poet and playwright Harold Pinter using exerts from her diaries and linking narrative. Two sexually attractive, passionate, and strong characters are revealed as devoted and loving companions in sparse, effective prose. The most affective b...

from yooperprof

It is what it is: 300 pages of good gossipy reading, about one of the most famous literary couples of the last 35 years. A brilliant playwright of the "kitchen sink school", Pinter acheived the remarkable feat of being mentioned in a great Stephen Sondheim song shortly after he turned 40. ("The L...