The Ian Fleming Miscellany (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Amaryllis was appalled. She disliked Anne, and they both knew it. He told her there was no alternative. Anne was pregnant. She and Esmond had been separated since October, so the child was his. He didn’t tell her that in 1948 Anne had had a baby which didn’t live, which had been his too. Esmond Rothermere knew, even then, but not until the ‘cease and desist’ notice did he take any action. Ian was enough of a Fleming to consider the future from every financial angle. He had always wanted, and with a child on the way actively needed, to make a lot of money. He had once said that his ideal woman would be about 30, kind, Jewish and with an independent income. A younger version of Maud and Liesl, in fact. The ‘real James Bond’, the American ornithologist whose book Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies gave Fleming the name for his own ‘Master-spy’. Philadelphia Enquirer Anne was 38 and came encumbered by extravagant tastes plus two school-age children by Shane O’Neill. She looked what people call ‘hard-faced’, and the tight little hairstyles, vivid lipstick and rigidly tailored clothing of that era didn’t help.
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