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Lady Rachel Mary Billington OBE (née Pakenham; born 11 May 1942) is a British author, the third daughter of the 7th Earl and Countess of Longford; both parents were writers, as was her aunt, Christine Longford.
From the 50s to the present day, and with elements of a psychological thriller, I tried to show how three women navigate a future where men are not the only answer. The focus shifts from one sister to the next, putting human nature, its flaws and its virtues, under the spotlight.
It covers Chile’s dramatic fight for independence from Spain, and the extraordinary relationship between a disgraced Napoleonic hero and a newly widowed blue stocking. I began my research in Valparaiso, where these two remarkable people met in 1822, and I continued my work in libraries in London, Oxford and Edinburgh.
Biography. Rachel Billington worked in television in London and New York before taking up full-time writing in 1968. Her first novel All Things Nice was set in sixties New York.
Lady Rachel Mary Billington OBE is a British author. Billington worked in television in London and New York before taking up full-time writing in 1968. She has published twenty-one novels for adults, including the bestsellers A Woman’s Age and Bodily Harm .
Rachel Billington has written twenty one novels and eleven books for children. She is also a journalist, feature writer and reviewer. She is a regular contributor and Associate Editor of Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners and a Vice-President of English PEN.
12 mag 2022 · Rachel Billington. Photo: © Graeme Robertson. At the age of 80, the novelist, journalist and screenwriter tells Peter Stanford why her fiction writing has come to a stop for now.
