She adored her husband but Elizabeth Bowen's sparring demanded she share her bed with a married man; Told in her own letters, the shocking love life of an Irish novelist.(News)

The Daily Mail (London, England) | March 19, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: by Turtle Bunberry

IN THE spring of 1973, Charles Ritchie was at a dinner in London when he was informed that his love letters had been discovered. My grandmother had found them while clearing out the house of her recently deceased cousin, the Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen. Elizabeth and Ritchie had been engaged in an illicit affair for over thirty years.

Ritchie supposed my grandmother would burn the letters. 'What does it matter now?' he wrote mournfully in his diary. But the letters were not burned.

My grandmother posted them back ...

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