Continuing the Case for Hugo Williams
Opinion was divided as to whether she had left me, and I didn’t know for sure myself, as we don’t discuss such things. The evidence seemed to be that she had, given that she no longer lived here, but we continued to visit. People said jokingly that I had the ideal marriage, but in reality such division of life plans was difficult to think about positively, and the travelling was complicated.
(Not that the case needs to be made by me, Hugo Williams is a successful author, poet and columnist, but this excerpt from his Freelance column in the Times Literary Supplement of 9 December 2011 about his wife Hermine is simply more evidence of the mischievous and sublime clarity of his writing).
