’ So is she, like her hero, unsentimental? ‘Yes, I’m very unsentimental
I have lived a very happy and fulfilled life
For the briefest of moments, as she plays with her hearing aid, PD James resembles Mrs Richards, the gimlet-eyed battleaxe in Fawlty Towers whose demands for ‘a view’ prompt Basil’s ‘herds of wildebeest’ speech. This is unfair – she doesn’t really need the hearing aid, she is [...]