CRAIG BROWN: We can now enjoy The Secret Heart, a new book by a former lover of the late John le Carré, who goes by the name of Suleika Dawson. The book is billed as an intimate memoir .
I had only a few days to wait for him to call. My darling girl, he began. Is it really you? Are we still us? We hadn t spoken in almost 14 years and yet the words simply flowed between us.
After that we had a picnic on the rug and after that we needed to launch the bed. Then I lay with my head on the crook of David s arm while, for the first time, he read me the pages of his latest novel.
The recording had gone without a glitch. The very first audiobook production of Le Carré reading. But what I really want is to ask your lovely co-producer if she ll have lunch with me. will you Sue?