[ebooktalk] Re: Death of Derrick Longden
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:56:06 +0100
I met him a couple of times because of his association with blind romantic
author Aileen Armatage whom I interviewed several times for In Touch. He was
also once part of the Newcastle Literary festival one year when I happened to
be chairing some of the sessions. I didn't think much of his books but he was
a very funny man, a raconteur with a fund of great stories and anecdotes.
On 28 Jun 2013, at 20:06, Trish Talbot wrote:
> I was very sad to hear this morning that Derrick Longden died at the weekend.
> His books are by no means classics, but he wrote with a quirky sense of
> humour about life as he witnessed it, including his cats as characters and
> imagining what they would say to him. He also wrote two very moving books,
> one about his wife, and the disabling condition that eventually led to her
> death, the other about his mother, who had a stroke. I know readers either
> love him or loath him, but His books should really rank among my favourites,
> as I've read many of them several times over when I was in need of a good
> laugh.
>
> Trish.
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