In the Potato Patch
Jenny Turner: Penelope Fitzgerald, 19 December 2013
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
by Hermione Lee.
Chatto, 508 pp., £25, November 2013,978 0 7011 8495 7 Show More
by Hermione Lee.
Chatto, 508 pp., £25, November 2013,
“... it would have looked as though she was still securely on her golden path. In summer 1940 she fell in love with Desmond Fitzgerald, a ‘dashing … tall, dark and handsome’ trainee barrister and lieutenant in the Irish Guards. The couple married in 1942 and settled, after Desmond’s war service (for which he was awarded the Military Cross), in ... ”