CJ CAREY
May 19, 2021
3 minutes
Words by Jonathan Wright
Photography by Olly Curtis
CCASIONALLY, A WRITER CAN TELL YOU exactly how a book began life. In the case of CJ Carey (a pseudonym), she’d gone out for lunch with a friend, who had offered condolences over the 2018 death of her husband, the novelist Philip Kerr. But there was a kicker. “And then he said, ‘Look, we’d really love to have you to dinner, but the trouble is we only have couples to dinner’.” After lunch, a thought occurred to Carey: “Oh God, I’m
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