Ursula Bentley was born in Sheffield in 1945 and was educated at the Ursuline Convent School and at Manchester University. The author of The Natural Order, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. She died in April 2004.
‘She had to explain this, and the thought crossed her mind to dwell on this personal note, to put out a feeler to test Christina's reaction to the idea of sexual experiment.’
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