Right - have spent an hour on the phone with great mate Anna, who is, inter alia, a tabloid journalist (freelance now, features...) so she knows all about defamation. There is absolutely no way my nutter could do me for defamation - for a start virtually no one knows who she is... but in any case, she would have to be recognisable, preferably with the same name - and she would have to be a horrible character in the novel. Arguably the nutter is so nasty that nothing I might write about her would be defamatory - just pure authorial observation. However, I don't fancy trying to play it that way.
She is an odd combination of feisty and needy - not a very good combination. Anna said "Needy women always make themselves indispensable to men until they have got them...then wham!" It cheered me up enormously - I think I've done the right thing. Except that what I've done isn't going to be discussed here, since she could easily access this if she wanted to.
She is an odd combination of feisty and needy - not a very good combination. Anna said "Needy women always make themselves indispensable to men until they have got them...then wham!" It cheered me up enormously - I think I've done the right thing. Except that what I've done isn't going to be discussed here, since she could easily access this if she wanted to.
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