Must You Go?

A moving testament to modern literature�s most celebrated marriage: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and a marvelously insightful account of their years together, beginning with their initial meeting when Fraser was the wife of a member of Parliament and mother of six, and Pinter was married to a distinguished actress. Over the years, they experienced much joy, a shared devotion to their work, crises and laughter, and, in the end, great courage and love as Pinter battled the illness to which he eventually suc�cumbed on Christmas Eve, 2008. Must You Go? is based on Fraser�s recollections and on the diaries she has kept since October 1968. She shares Pinter�s own revelations about his past, as well as observations by his friends. Fraser�s diaries�written by a biographer living with a creative artist and observing the process firsthand�also pro�vide a unique insight into his writing. Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser lived together from August 1975 until his death thirty-three years later. �O! call back yesterday, bid time return,� cries one of the courtiers to Richard II. This is Antonia Fraser�s uniquely compelling way of doing so.