Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica - Plot & Excerpts
Ian Fleming, ‘How to Write a Thriller’ Ann and Ian continued their correspondence during the spring and summer of 1950, although their meetings were, for discretion’s sake, few and snatched. Ian professed his love for her ‘more than any other woman’, but also his misgivings about her divorcing and their marrying. He was a solitary man, but she was at the centre of family, home and friends. He felt bad about Esmond – ‘there is no evil in him and neither of us wishes him harm’ – and the children, Fionn and Raymond, who had got used to their Rothermere stepfather and ‘shouldn’t be shaken up again’. ‘I know all the other side,’ he wrote in February 1950, ‘our basic love and faith in each other and in our stars. They would be enough to sail our ship if it weren’t for the harm we would do.’ Ann found herself in what she described to her brother Hugo as a ‘static emotional state’. She loved Ian – Rothermere was very much ‘second-best’ – but lacked the ‘courage to leap from the merry-go-round’.
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