![]() Years passed before the boys finally realised that she would not be coming back. His mother, the long-suffering Olive, behaved with equal heartlessness, running off one night with a business associate of Ronnie’s, leaving David and his older brother Tony asleep upstairs. ![]() “How I got out from under Ronnie, if I ever did,” le Carré wrote, “is the story of my life.” His father, Ronnie, a figure straight out of Dickens, was a charming con man who blighted David’s childhood, and would continue to pop up at unexpected and highly inconvenient moments in his adult life, cajoling him, cadging from him and, at one point, even attempting to blackmail him. As the saying goes, you couldn’t write it and be believed.Ĭornwell was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset. And what was the film they were watching? Truffaut’s Jules et Jim, in which two men strive to preserve their friendship although they are in love with the same woman. ![]() In the cinema, Sisman tells us, “Susan sat between James and David in the darkened cinema, each clasping her nearer hand”. As it happened, le Carré and Susan were about to embark on a love affair that would bring le Carré much torment, since he cared for his friend almost as much he did for his friend’s wife. ![]() ![]() Consider the evening in the 1960s when le Carré, basking in the fabulous success of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, went to the cinema with his friend the novelist James Kennaway and Kennaway’s wife Susan. ![]()
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