Craig Raine

Ladies’ man: Tom Stoppard’s love life revealed

Hermione Lee is more illuminating on the affairs and marriages than on the plays and the risqué jokes

Stoppard in 1990, while married to his second wife, Miriam. His love life is more fully disclosed than ever before. Credit: photograph by Marcello Mencarini/Bridgeman Images 
issue 26 September 2020
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  • Tom Stoppard: A Life

    Hermione Lee

    Faber, pp. 992, £30

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