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Manchester Literature Festival

Antonia Fraser on Harold Pinter

Wednesday 19th October, 7.30pm

Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER

Tickets: £8/£6 concessions. Book on 0843 208 0500 or

Lady Antonia Fraser first met the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Harold Pinter in 1975 when she was 42 and already married. They were together until his death 33 years later. In her vivid memoir Must You Go? she talks movingly about their relationship and creative lives. The book, based on her diaries, is both an intimate portrait of a great writer and an act of self-revelation. Antonia Fraser is the author of many best-selling history books, including Mary Queen of Scots, The Gunpowder Plot and Marie Antoinette. She will be in conversation with The Guardian’s Decca Aitkenhead.

This event is sponsored by Weightmans law firm.