Profile: Maggie Smith

She may not be the Downton Dame, but Maggie Smith is also in her mid-eighties – and a writer whose first three decades encompassed World War II and massive post-war social changes. This is not a misery memoir but a tale of the survival of a bright girl fr....

She may not be the Downton Dame, but Maggie Smith is also in her mid-eighties – and a writer whose first three decades encompassed World War II and massive post-war social changes. This is not a misery memoir but a tale of the survival of a bright girl fr....

'Readers who enjoyed Maggie Smith’s two volumes of memoirs, ‘Arriving Where I Started’ and 'Miles To Go Before I Sleep’, will welcome her very first novel, published as she approached her ninety-third year… Set in Yorkshire, Massachusetts and upstate New ....

‘Arriving Where I Started’, a memoir of my first three decades, ended a little cryptically with ‘We were embarking on an awfully big adventure.’ And so it proved. Sadly, my marriage did not survive, but that is as much my children’s story as mine and our ....