Andrew Lycett

Keeping a mistress was essential to John le Carré’s success

The novelist himself admitted that his infidelities ‘produced a duality and tension that became a necessary drug for my writing’

Liese Deniz modelling a mohair sweater and slacks in 1958. [Alamy] 
issue 14 October 2023
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