Posy Simmonds was born in Berkshire in 1945. She studied graphic design and illustration at the Central School of Art and Design in London and got her first newspaper gig in 1969 with a daily cartoon in the Sun.
When I heard about this book I went straight out and got it. It's about four female thinkers Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil and it follows their thinking and experience of war and authoritarianism through the 1930s and 40s, drawing from their letters and writing.
The Oare Marshes on the north Kent coast are the perfect antidote to London. I like going there even when it's cold and dank. It's very flat, with big skies and huge horizons, and it's sort of where you feel England petering out.
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