Evelyn Anthony

She had a very prolific writing career, translated into at least 19 languages and her 1971 novel The Tamarind Seed was adapted for a film in 1974, starring Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow.[2][3] Anthony was a keen reader as a child and attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart school in Roehampton as a boarder from the age of ten.[2][3] She wrote a series of four novels, beginning with The Defectors (1980), which chronicled the tales of fictional female secret agent, Davina Graham, who became the MI5 director.[2] Her most famous novel was The Tamarind Seed (1971), which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1974, starring Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow, a British Home Office functionary and Omar Sharif as Feodor, a Soviet air attaché, lovers involved in Cold War intrigue.[5] Anthony met Michael Ward-Thomas, an executive for the Consolidated African Selection Trust, on a double date at The Dorchester.The cost of restoration and maintenance, however, forced them to sell the manor house in 1976 and they moved to Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, where Anthony had relatives.
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