And tonight's trivia question is...

[chickenfeet]

Sponsored by being sucked into the Folio Society's spring sale by the offer of all of Daphne du Maurier's Cornish novels...

What is the connection between Daphne du Maurier and A Bridge Too Far?

Comments

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

film, book, or subject thereof?

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Her husband was a significant figure in the BtF events(? as eny fule no? I knew this before the TV programme about DdM which featured interminable shots of her gazing at the wild waves or her typewriter, though at least included her and Gertrude Lawrence being sapphic)

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

Her husband was supposedly the one who actually said it was "a bridge too far".