![]() ![]() In her late sixties (she died in 1995, aged 74) she recorded a dream in which her mother, whom she disliked, primarily for her stupidity, cut off the head of one of Patricia's ex-lovers and told her, "You will have to help me get rid of the body", before coating the head in transparent wax. Throughout her life, she kept notebooks: by the age of eight, she was already fantasising about killing her stepfather. all those strange characters haunting other people, and thinking and fantasising about them - they were her. "She knew that it stood between her and insanity. "Her writing saved her," one of her friends told her biographer. ![]() In Deep Water, set in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, Patricia. She lived in her books, and, in many ways, through them. Read 871 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. "At least he HAD A GO!" She wanted me to give him due credit for having had the guts to kill his wife's lovers. "But at least he had a go," she replied, testily. The only time I remember getting a rise out of her was when I called Vic a weak man. ![]()
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