Sandra Howard

Sandra Clare Howard (née Paul) was born in 1940 and was one of the leading fashion models of the 1960s.   Although occasionally appearing in magazines, Sandra has largely given up her modelling career. She is a trustee of the drug rehabilitation charity Addaction and vice-president of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE) She is married to the former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard. 

 

 


 

 

Glass Houses; Ursula's Story; next: A Matter of Loyalty (Simon & Schuster)

     
 

Ursula's Story

How do you deal with the end of a marriage when you are the partner who is left in the lurch? This is what happens to Ursula but, beyond the heartbreak, she must deal with the break up of the relationship being played out endlessly in the tabloids. Ursula's story opens on the day of her ex-husband William's wedding. The press are on the phone to her at six in the morning, asking her to share her innermost feelings. 'No comment', is all she can manage. Her three children, particularly the two youngest, cannot restrain their excitement. After all, it isn't every day that their father marries a government minister and the Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are invited. But Ursula, herself embarked on a shaky new affair with a local man, sees how hard their daughter Jessie has taken the shake-up. Her father's secret favourite, she has put up walls, closed doors. But are these defences strong enough to protect a ten-year-old child?

 

 


I owe many thanks to a wide circle of people . . . to Vivienne Schuster who originally pressed me to have a go at a book and to Hilary Johnson for her invaluable help and guidance in how to write one. . . .

                                                                                                                          

     

Author photograph: Barry Lategan

     
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