Hilary Spurling

Literature’s least attractive power couple

A review of ‘Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Works and Times’, by Wendy Pollard, which takes this spiky novelist – and her dreadful husband, C.P. Snow – at their own inflated valuation

Always a better novelist than her husband: Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1949 [Getty Images]

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