John le Carré’s on-and-off lover Suleika Dawson isn’t pleased with a new book about the spy author’s private life. “As one of le Carré’s women myself, I feel in a position to take a view,” she writes in a review of The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman.
“His thesis seems to be that it was the lavish attention, expensive gifts and exotic trips that drew each of us to [le Carré],” but, writes Dawson, “the love was real. If he believes it wasn’t then he has us all down not just as tarts but as fools too.”
