Love comes in all shapes and sizes

Adored the extract of Hunter davies’s second volume of memoirs, which was published in the Mail earlier this week.

A Life In The day focuses on the Beatles biographer’s life in London during the Swinging Sixties, when he was editor of The Sunday Times magazine.

It also chronicles his enduring love for his wife, the writer Margaret Forster, who died last year.

Around the same time he was encouraging Jilly Cooper and that golden generation of columnists to write explicit features about their racy sex lives, he was going home to Margaret every night.

When they did have sex it was always, he reveals, with the lights off. And he never told her that he loved her while they were married. Well, maybe once.

during their life together, the only compliment Hunter ever gave Margaret was that she looked ‘neat and clean’.

Yet love and romance come in all shapes and sizes — and theirs was deep and strong, and endured until the end.