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In the opening sentences of The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell reveals that the protagonist—a teenage girl in late-Renaissance Italy—will be dead in less than a year, likely at her ...

But when Richard E. Grant calls his late wife Joan Washington his “soulmate” in his new memoir "A Pocketful of Happiness" (Simon & Schuster, 336 pp., out Tuesday), it almost seems an ...

Allan and Janet Ahlberg’s partnership redefined children’s books that continue to delight generations of young readers.

Then, in 2005, six of her witty, detailed letters to a friend were discovered, providing fresh revelations about her nine-year marriage to one of the most beloved of 20th-century British authors.