Poetic Obituaries: The intensity of her [Josephine Hart's] fiction,

especially her first two novels, Damage and Sin (just reissued as Virago Modern Classics), mirrored that inner ferocity. She never intended those books to be the bestsellers they became, published in 25 languages and film rights sold to Louis Malle. She wrote what was in her, aching to get out, while she lived her life as a wife, a mother, a producer of plays and poetry readings--until the day came when, like one of her own characters, she finally succumbed to the overpowering urge to write fiction.

from The Guardian: Josephine Hart remembered by Ed Victor

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