Have I read somewhere that she was a sex therapist or something like that? Yes completely understand- they would have had a field day!
see excerpt below from the following article - how I would love to read that news of the world piece today!
Susannah Clapp · Ventures
Andrew Stephen’s book has added to this celebrity. So have the newspaper stories about his story. For three long weeks the
Observer carried huge chunks of this tiny book. Their estimate of the story which was most likely to attract readers was the same as that of the
News of the World, who shortly before Andrew Stephen’s book was published put a picture of Susannah Lamplugh on the cover of its colour-supplement. This showed her sitting on a bunk smoking, in a little silky garment. Alongside large amounts of tanned thigh was the legend: ‘REVEALED! SUZY LAMPLUGH’S SECRET LOVER.’ Inside, a gruellingly banal article described a (non-secret) affair with a hairdresser on the
QE2. ‘Right from the start there was something between them, Jon remembers. “When I first saw Suzy I thought, ‘Wow, who is she?’ ” ’ Other papers, excited by the news that the Lamplugh parents had turned against the book, expressed their excitement in ways peculiar to themselves. The
People said Stephen credited Susannah with fifty lovers: he doesn’t. The
Times said the Lamplugh family had left home while the book was being publicised and published: they were back for publication date. The
Guardian denounced the ‘public voyeurism that provokes publication’ of such an ‘archetypal ghoul’s story’ – though it was the Lamplughs, not a ravening mob, who had approached the publishers with the idea for this book, and the publishers were free to say no. Andrew Stephen had one defender in Anita Brookner – but the effectiveness of her attack on his attackers was diminished by its appearing in the
Observer while that paper was ending its serialisation of the book. He also mounted his own defence, or attack.
