Angela Lambert

Angela Lambert (April 14, 1940 – September 26, 2007) was a British journalist, art critic and author, best known for the novel A Rather English Marriage.

Born as Angela Maria Helps to a civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls’ boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics. She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining The Independent newspaper in 1988.

Lambert suffered multiple immune disorders and hepatitis C (caught from a blood transfusion) which led to cirrhosis of the liver. Having survived a critical illness in February 2006, she never quite recovered, and became increasingly disabled. She lived in London and France (having bought a house in the Dordogne in 1972). She is survived by Tony Price, her partner of 21 years, and by her son and two daughters.

Novels

• No Talking After Lights (1990)
• Love Among the Single Classes (1998)
• A Rather English Marriage (1992)
• The Constant Mistress (1998)
• The Property of Rain (2001)

Non-fiction

• Unquiet Souls: A Social History of the Illustrious, Irreverent, Intimate Group of British Aristocrats Known As "the Souls" (1987)
• 1939: The Last Season of Peace (1989)
• The Lost Life of Eva Braun (2006)

External links

• Obituary
• Obituary in The Times, 27 September 2007
• Obituary and Public Tribute