The Third Woman

by Sir William Cash (Author)

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  The 12-year affair between Graham Greene and Catherine Walston, the sexually adventurous 1940s and 1950s society hostess, was only made public in a silence-shattering article in The Sunday Times after Greene's death in 1991. It was a relationship that was to have crucial creative and destructive effects on the lovers and also their contemporaries - in particular their partners - and was the direct inspiration for a work regarded by many as Greene's masterpiece, The End of the Affair , dedicated to C and praised by William Faulkner as one of the most true and moving novels in anybody's language . Exploring the creative debt that literature owes to adultery (what Greene himself called the necessity of sin ) and re-encountering the physical landscape of their romance - from Rules restaurant in Covent Garden where they had dinner before making illicit love for the first time in a cheap Paddington hotel in 1947, to Tuscany where it is alleged that the couple had sex behind a succession of church altars (Greene's unusual way of dealing with Catholicism) - this volume seeks to unravel the enigma of Graham Greene as well as offer a compelling literary detective story.