‘No one’s genius to nurture’: Leila was married to an art monster. Now he’s dead – and it’s her turn

By Jane Turner Goldsmith, PhD candidate, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide

“And it was Leila Whittaker, Ken Black’s widow, not Leila Whittaker the novelist who bent down to pick up a flower arrangement.”

Leila the novelist has spent a lifetime playing second fiddle to her celebrity artist husband, the evocatively named Ken Black. She strives for recognition on her own count, but her energies have clearly been sucked up in the nurturing of her husband’s art, and the raising of their two sons, the blessed Sebastian and the troubled Otis.

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