article_snippet: The first surprise in Simpson’s book is that the story begins in England.
article_snippet: But how much of a mutual love-match was it?
article_snippet: In real life the family left by train for a series of engagements, crossing the Channel and taking a ship from Southampton for New York, arriving in America in October 1938.
article_snippet: The closest you’d find is ‘
article_snippet: Indeed, years later I bought a flat near Salzburg.
article_snippet: Once seen, never forgotten.