Sue Gee's parents met and married in India in 1946 and returned to Britain in 1947, with the coming of independence to India. She and her brother David grew up on a Devon farm and in a Leicestershire village, before the family moved to Surrey in 1957.[citation needed] She lived for 27 years with the environmental journalist Marek Mayer: they married in 2003, two years before his death.[2] Their son is Jamie Mayer. Sue Gee lives in London and Herefordshire.
Her first novel, Spring Will Be Ours, was inspired by Marek Mayer's Polish background. It delineates the period 1939–1981 – from the Invasion of Poland (1939) at the start of World War II to the period of Solidarity and martial law (1981–1983). Its title comes from graffiti scrawled on the walls of Warsaw in 1981: Winter is yours, but spring will be ours. Later novels are both historical and contemporary. The success of her novel The Hours of the Night in 1995 attracted criticism from Barbara Cartland and others because it included a love affair between a gay couple.[4]
She is also the author of many short stories, and of a Radio 4 drama, Ancient & Modern, broadcast in 2004 with Juliet Stevenson in the lead role.
^"The widow's might". The Scotsman. 28 July 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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The Widow's Might
April 11, 2024
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