However, she soon realised that her true calling was writing. She was Sandra, 'the Long Legs of the Law', playing a policewoman who dated Rodney Trotter in the BBC series Only Fools And Horses, and as a stage actress made her debut in a play starring Bill Nighy and Diana Quick. A star as soon as she stepped on to the school stage with Emma Thompson at Camden School for Girls, she chose acting instead of going to university. The eldest daughter of six children, Kate was born in London, into a devout Anglo-Catholic family of bohemian charm, warmth and eccentricity. Yes, she was glassy-eyed from morphine, but she was still herself. 'It doesn't matter a damn,' said Kate, almost gaily. 'Won't it be dangerous, with the morphine?' asked one of her other friends. Remembering this, and how she loved good fizz, I said: 'Let's have some champagne.' It was the saddest sight of the glamorous blonde who, when I'd first met her in the bar of the Groucho Club in the 1980s, had been wearing bright red lipstick and a mini skirt, with a drink in one hand and cigarette in the other. The eldest daughter of six children, Kate was born in London, into a devout Anglo-Catholic family of bohemian charm, warmth and eccentricityĪs novelists, we both knew that almost anything is bearable if you write it down.
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