Penelope Mortimer
Ida Kar © National Portrait Gallery London
Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999) was the author of nine novels; one collection of short stories; two volumes of memoir, the Whitbread Prize-winning About Time and About Time Too; and a biography of the Queen Mother. Her screenwriting credits include Otto Preminger’s Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), which she cowrote with her then-husband John Mortimer. She was also a film critic for the Observer.
Penelope Mortimer
A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion—“her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel” (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)