# A Corner of Paradise

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- Book: [A Corner of Paradise](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-thompson/a-corner-of-paradise) ([A Corner of Paradise.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-thompson/a-corner-of-paradise.md))
- Authors: [Brian Thompson](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-thompson)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4815-633-7
- Published: 2013-07-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences – ones to baffle many, not least themselves – until her death, aged 78. Both were writers, though they came from opposite ends of the social register – she an Admiral’s daughter, he the descendant of unruly Cockney eccentrics. She was by nature a solitary, while he was loud, incurably facetious – and needy. From a tiny Harrogate terrace, to the deeply un-picturesque French farmhouse where they spent their summers, Brian and Liz battled their way to a heart-rending goodbye in an Oxford hospital ward. In many ways, their partnership was ‘an exercise in asymmetry’ – yet, despite the conflicts, they emerge in this deeply-felt memoir as a couple who were lucky enough to find their corner of paradise in one another.