- British author.
- At age 26, she published the novel "The Colour of Rain" under the name Catherine Aydy. The name and title were both reportedly arrived at by the manipulations of a Ouija board.
- Daughter, Rose (born in 1973), with publisher Michael Dempsey.
- Daughter, Daisy, with third husband, journalist Alexander Cockburn.
- Sister of Colin Tennant. Aunt of Christopher Tennant.
- Former daughter-in-law of Henry Green.
- She married her last husband, Tim Owens, after more than thirty years of living with him.
- Grand-niece of lady Margaret Asquith and thus cousin to director Anthony Asquith and actress Helena Bonham Carter.
- Author born in aristocratic society which she satirized in her first novel under the pen name Catherine Aydy, she later founded the literary magazine Bananas and wrote novels of a different tack and her memoirs.
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