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“... One of her sons was a friend of Bainbridge’s eldest child. Now married, Anne Lindholm had become Anna Haycraft. She was the mother of many and worked at Duckworth publishers, which her husband, Colin, ran. Did Bainbridge have any unpublished novels? She did. Duckworth took her on. Anna Haycraft became her ...”

“... against: even Scylla and Charybdis can be negotiated. Caroline Blackwood has joined hands with Anna Haycraft to keep herself, and us, going in another way – with food. Darling, you shouldn’t have gone to so much trouble (dedicated to ‘our daughters’) is a cookery book of a new kind. You can cheat, and enjoy it: do it all at high speed, and ...”

“... squatting amid a cornucopia of vegetables, but these are not to be his sole solace when weaned. If Anna Haycraft’s recipes are followed he will also be tucking into tripe, sweetbreads, heart, liver, kidneys and ...”

“... Afternoon Off (1978), a TV play we shot at Whitby with a scene in a café and a long speech by Anna Massey. Stephanie Cole plays the other part, but it’s hardly a conversation as she only has one line with Anna doing all the talking. And I realise, as I haven’t until now, that I was writing monologues long before I ...”

“... years ago. Dame Judi is here and Michael Williams, Dame Wendy, Lindsay A., Ron Pickup and Anna Massey, Keith Baxter, Percy Harris, who’s 90 herself, and Ralph Richardson’s widow, Mu. I am happily seated between Jocelyn Herbert and Merula Guinness, with both of whom one can be happily silly. ‘You see,’ says Jocelyn. ‘I look down this table at ...”