Angela Lambert | |
|---|---|
| Born | Angela Maria Helps (1940-04-14)14 April 1940 |
| Died | 26 September 2007(2007-09-26) (aged 67) |
| Language | English |
| Education | Wispers School St Hilda's College |
| Period | 1969–2006 |
| Spouse | |
| Partner | Tony Price |
| Children | 3 |
Angela Maria Lambert (néeHelps; 14 April 1940 – 26 September 2007) was a British journalist and author. She is best known for her novelsA Rather English Marriage andKiss and Kin, the latter of which won theRomantic Novel of the Year Award.[1]
Lambert was born Angela Maria Helps to an English civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent toWispers School, a girls' boarding school inSussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went toSt Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics.
In 1962, she married Martin Lambert, they had a son and a daughter, and the union ended five years later, when he left her with two young children to support. Later she also had another daughter with the Hungarian-born writerStephen Vizinczey.[2]
She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working forITN before joiningThe Independent newspaper in 1988.
Lambert suffered multiple immune disorders andhepatitis C (caught from a blood transfusion) which led tocirrhosis of the liver. Having survived a critical illness in February 2006, she never quite recovered, and became increasingly disabled. She lived in London and France (having bought a house in the Dordogne in 1972). She was survived by her partner of 21 years, television director Tony Price, and her three children.
