South London
Couldn’t Diana Evans’s fretful couples just shut up and deal with it?
My husband started reading Diana Evans’s third novel, Ordinary People, the day after I’d finished it. Three days later, I…
Real life
My upstairs neighbours are terribly nice, but too naive to be allowed to renovate their flat in peace. The two…
Victim status
Shame, sex, race and violence in 1980s London – and today
Real life
By and large, I’m not really sure the world is ready for me to join the steering committee of a…
A far cry from Chelsea
London House is in Battersea, which some people call South Chelsea, but is more East Wandsworth to my mind; or…
Dear Mary
Q. I have a problem with what might be called location blindness. I live in Balham, but when I arrange…










