9 May 2013
Lady Antonia Fraser was so taken by the praise from her publisher Alan Samson in the presence of Lord Weidenfeld, her family and other writers that she said she might have to buy her new book herself.
Perilous Question, The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, was launched at Sotheran’s off Piccadilly. It’s dedicated to her husband Harold Pinter and father Frank Longford “who were not afraid to ask perilous questions”.
“We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future,” she said, referring to current political dramas in which no one has a clue what’s happening next.
“We know the Reform Bill will pass but those who fought for it did not.”
