About Patricia Duncker: Patricia Duncker is a British novelist and academic.
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.
Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
