Sweet William

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‘Cunningly clever, wry, dry, sharply pointed’ Evening Standard 

Ann is fulfilling her snobbish mother’s ambitions: she’s a BBC secretary, recently engaged to a successful academic. Outside her Hampstead flat, the Swinging Sixties are happening elsewhere, to other people. That is, until she meets the generous and cunning playwright William. Ann is first seduced, then transfixed. As William’s nebulous past, present and future swirl kaleidoscopically around her, she finds herself irrevocably and irreparably changed.  

A darkly comic study of self-deception and the repercussions of sexual freedom, Sweet William is for fans of Harold Pinter, Tessa Hadley and Penelope Mortimer.  

First published by Duckworth in 1975

Published by Penguin in 1992

Published by Virago in 2013

Adapted into a film in 1980

Forthcoming edition published by Daunt Books