"[The anonymous (male) interviewer recently read Lace with pleasure] Oh really? My ex-husband paid his lawyer to read it, to check whether there was anything to sue me about. A lovely job for £250 an hour. ["Did he find anything?"] Well Terence didn’t sue me [...] But I don’t think his lawyer did a very good job."
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Shirley Conran
Dame Shirley Ida Conran DBE (née Pearce; 21 September 1932 – 9 May 2024) was an English novelist, designer, and journalist.
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