Prizes

Winner of PEN/Ackerley Prize 2007.

A a beautifully judged account of an era usually doused in generalised sentiment -- Daily Telegraph

Beautifully written and enormously entertaining -- The Scotsman

Funny and terrifying in turns -- The Sunday Times

One of the funniest - and darkest - war memoirs you'll ever read... a spellbinding story. -- Daily Mail

The prefect antidote to the 'misery memior'.

BRIAN THOMPSON was born in Lambeth, London in 1935. After vigorous rescue remedies applied by two grammar schools, he read English at Cambridge. Since 1973 he has written for a living as a radio and television playwright and documentary film maker. His first volume of memoir, Keeping Mum, was published by Atlantic in 2006 and the second volume, Clever Girl, was published in 2007. He is also the author of several acclaimed biographies including A Monkey Among Crocodiles and The Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller. The Widow's Secret is his first novel. He lives in Oxford.