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This passage is from the beginning of the novel, on the eve of his departure:`It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back. Tomorrow morning, when the woman I have lived with for six years has gone to work on her bicycle, and our children have been taken to the park with their ball, I will pack some things into a suitcase, slip out of my house hoping that no one will see me, and take the tube to Victor's place. Your contract is not worth the paper it's not written on.""My sister would accept it though. I'll even give you her telephone number, if you like!"And so the mighty battle between the respective claims of fiction and non-fiction raged on, with each man giving, and then seizing back, a little precious ground as late evening moved inexorably towards night, when even literary combatants must lay down their paper swords and sleep the sleep of the questionably just.`Intimacy' is published by Faber`intimacy'Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons.

She did charity work, but she holidayed on a playboy's paradise with the Al Fayeds. She spoke to downtrodden women but chose men who did nothing for her. She spoke of strength while putting faith in clairvoyants and crystal gazers."Don't we all have a problem with Diana? She has been a problem for feminists," agrees Campbell. "But she did an important thing in bringing the future king to account and so it doesn't matter to me if she spent a million pounds on frocks."Diana Spencer did indeed have a dog's life.

Her strength was the fact that she tapped into women's suffering rather than women's achievement. What we liked was that she showed how a princess in a palace could still have a dreadful life. But what she really wanted was the status quo twisted to her advantage.So don't let's try to make the most famous blonde in the world into something she wasn't - that's what she complained about all her life. The female role model Diana would have empathised with today is that other photogenic blonde - Ally McBeal. And nobody's calling her a feminist icon.Julie Burchillon Diana the Rebel"THE HYSTERICAL mutilation and Ophelia-like staircase-flingings were long gone; no more throwing up or falling down for this victim turned vamp turned champ."She fought back like a woman with stealth and stubbornness and sarcasm. She became a scenery eater of the coolest kind; this is the part of the Joan Crawford film when the heroine finally realises that her man done her wrong and her fresh, ingenue face turns into a hard-smiled, glittery- eyed mask for a moment before she snaps back to normal or at least what passes for it."From now on it's just me and the kids And I'll do anything for those kids.

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