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'We would refer to The Observer as The Weekly Cookey'

November 16, 2025

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The Observer

Whenever she arrived - to a dinner, a book event, a concert - she would have a smile on her face and a light in her eye that seemed to say: "This is going to be fun.

- Julian Barnes, novelist

She was good at pleasure, intensely hardworking, and curious about all things, except perhaps croquet and backgammon (though I wouldn't entirely count them out). She was one of the best journalists around: a coeval on another paper called her “the cleverest woman I know”. In our household, we referred to The Observer as The Weekly Cookey because she seemed to be writing in every section: a political interview, a lead

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