Charles Davis writes “from story at
independent.co.uk.
Obituary at
The Independant
Vivien Greene, widow of Graham Greene, died at her home in Oxfordshire on Tuesday aged 98.
Amanda Saunders, the daughter of the novelist’s sister, who lives in Northamptonshire, said yesterday that her death felt like the
end of an era. Graham Greene died in 1991.
Mrs Greene, a devout Catholic, married the novelist in 1927 at the end of an “intense” courtship during which he converted to
Catholicism.
However, the complex moral ambiguities that so frequently marked the characters in his novels were never far from his
day-to-day existence. As his belief in Catholicism began to wane, his unfaithful forays outside his marriage grew in equal
measur”
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