Doris Lessing’s Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 is set in London. I found myself going to my bookcase to find Toni Sussman and The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson. Toni Sussman was Doris Lessing’s Jungian analyst who left Germany with her husband in 1938—in the front of the book I had written Fiona Cantell, Landseer’s Studio, 1977. Landseer’s Studio is in Maida Vale and the lady who helped edit Toni Sussman lived there—she also was a Jungian analyst. My former husband and I met E.P. Thompson at a kelim rug sale in Worcester, England in the early 70s. At the time we lived in Britannia Square and we were invited to tea by an American whose husband was a post graduate student of E.P. Thompson’s wife. The American couple lived in an apartment in the Thompsons’ house—no ordinary house but the most beautiful Georgian country house with a ha ha overlooking lovely parkland with cows! Doris Lessing writes about her friendship with E.P. Thompson in Walking in the Shade.