The third woman : the secret passion that inspired 'The end of the affair'

Summary

The 12-year affair between Graham Greene and Catherine Walston, the sexually adventurous 1940s and 1950s society hostess, was only made public in a silence-shattering article in The Sunday Times after Greene's death in 1991. It was a relationship that was to have crucial creative and destructive effects on the lovers and also their contemporaries - in particular their partners - and was the direct inspiration for a work regarded by many as Greene's masterpiece, The End of the Affair, dedicated to C and praised by William Faulkner as one of the most true and moving novels in anybody's language.