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Sep 1, 2019 · Now 47, he tells his former nanny, Nina Stibbe, about how he deals with being blind. In 1982, Nina Stibbe, aged 20, landed a job as a nanny to Sam and Will Frears, the young sons of Mary-kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books.
May 11, 2016 · I was first aware of the letters when my mum [Mary-Kay] had her 70th birthday and a friend of ours made a book about her, and he asked people to write stuff about memories of my mum. One of the...
Jan 12, 2012 · Sam, whose father Stephen directed My Beautiful Launderette and The Queen, and whose mother Mary-Kay Wilmers edits the London Review of Books, has lived his life with familial dysautonomia. It has damaged his nervous system, leaving him walking with a stick.
Apr 13, 2020 · My wife, Suzy, taught yoga to Sam’s mum, Mary-Kay, and she was looking for someone to help Sam be more physically active. Mary-Kay’s circle is a rather bookish and scholarly one — not many bodybuilders about — so I was the obvious (and only) choice.
Mary-Kay Wilmers is determined to plug the book she has written about her family of Russian baddies; notably Leonid Eitingon, who hired Trotsky's assassin. Sod Sam, and his illness, and all this mother-son relationship yuck, she says, can't we get something worthwhile out of this?
Jul 11, 2012 · Over in Islington, Mary Mount, a book editor for Penguin was so captivated by the film that she wanted to meet Frears herself – to discuss an idea for a book project.
Aug 18, 2012 · Mary Mount has made her account of what it is like to be Sam a short impressionistic chronicle, interspersed with comments from his mother, Mary-Kay Wilmers. The result is both illuminating...
