A moving testament to modern literature's most celebrated marriage: 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. Must You Go? is based on Fraser's recollections and on the diaries she has kept since October 1968. She shares Pinter's own revelations about his past, as well as observations by his friends.


From the Hardcover edition.

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page

Praise for Must You Go?:
"Moving and compellingly readable. . . . Written with palpable love, warmth, affection and a huge sense of loss. . . . A heart-warming love story."
— The Telegraph

"Few people have the emotional capacity for a grand passion, or the talent for expressing it, as she does. Lady Antonia is a narrative historian and she has spent the year since Pinter died writing out their love story."
— Daily Mail


From the Hardcover edition.

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page

Preface
 
Part One
1 First Night
2 Pleasure and a Good Deal of Pain
3 Reader, We Lived Together . . .
4 Theatre of the World
5 Our Newfoundland
6 Open-Boating
7 A Super Study
8 It Is Here
 
Part Two
9 Writing Images
10 Unreasonable but Right?
11 Moon over Prague
12 Stage Wife
13 Marriage - Again
14 Moonlight and Ashes
15 France: Celebration
 
Part Three
16 The Steps Downward
17 The New Dead
18 Worst of Times, Best of Times
19 Fortitude
20 I'll Miss You So Much


From the Hardcover edition.

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page

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 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.


From the Hardcover edition.

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page