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When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

My dad was an English professor.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.