A House In St John's Wood: In Search Of My Parents by Matthew Spender, book review
The marriage of the poet Stephen Spender to the pianist Natasha Litvin has been the subject of speculation in literary circles since the day of their wedding in 1941. What drew the predominantly homosexual Spender to the naive 21-year-old student? How did their long marriage survive the turbulence of Stephen's infatuations with young men and Natasha's intense relationship with the novelist Raymond Chandler? And what effect did the fallout have on their children, Matthew and Lizzie Spender? (The latter is married to Barry 'Dame Edna' Humphries.)