“I always like sex,” Blanche d’Alpuget says with her customary candour. “All my books have had quite a bit of sex in them. Without that, we’re not here.”
Although she is better known to most Australians as the perennially glamorous second wife of the late prime minister Bob Hawke, D’Alpuget, now 81, has been writing since she was 30, with 15 published books under her belt.
