Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • A16

16 Tuesday16March2010evening standard love bananas. They are very healthy. I eat a lot of them instead of quote of the day Gordon Brown speaking to an incredulous Jane Garvey on Radio Hour girls join the book club INK is in their blood and Guinness, of course. Evgenia Citkowitz and Ivana Lowell, daughters of the novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood, have written books which come out this spring. Lady Caroline, who died of cancer aged 64 in 1996, was the daughter of the fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and of brewing heiress Maureen Guinness.

She was said to have married the three muses (art, music and poetry), having wed art- ist Lucian Israel Citkow- itz and poet Robert Lowell. She wrote many books, mostly autobiographical, and also wrote a book about visiting Greenham Common. book is a collection of short stories called Ether. She is married to actor Julian Sands. She was born in New York and educated at St School, Hammersmith, and her short stories have been published in UK mag- azines.

Her screenplay of The House in Paris, based on Elizabeth novel, is in development. It appears that life was a roller- coster much like her She was brought up in Ireland, England and America. It is an exotic story in which she looks for her father whose identity she discover until her mother died. He turned out to be Ivan Moffat, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Giant which starred James Dean. Moffat was at school with Lucian Freud, who was briefly first husband.

stepfather, Robert Lowell, wrote about her being burned by a hot kettle as a child. Ivana married her decorator, Matthew Miller, and is now the mother of one daughter, Daisy, and living in New York. Moggach sees the positive side of assisted suicide TULIP Fever author Deborah Moggach last night recalled the moment she found out her mother Charlotte Hough had been arrested in the Eighties after assisting an ill suicide. was on my way into Camden and I saw this Evening Standard placard saying Thriller Writer Arrested For Murder. I thought but I then I thought Discretion one of her fortes.

When she told us what done, my sister and I both said what an amazing courageous thing to do, now for sake shut up about it but she Moggach condemned the attitude towards euthanasia. all live far too long now and end up with dementia. My Another late-night yawn for Paxo DID Jeremy Paxman, right, genuinely forget the name of Andrew latest book which launched so many column inches in the papers and long minutes if not hours on radio and television? Introducing the Observer columnist to talk about whether Gordon Brown would or should resign if he failed to win a working majority, the Newsnight presenter appeared to have a memory lapse, forcing Rawnsley to remind him it was called The End of the Party. have thought Rawnsley said. all, it has been discussed Paxman interjected.

Keep it in the family: writers-to-be Ivana Lowell and Evgenia Citkowitz mother had dementia and she was an absolute nightmare. She should have died two years before she did. We should stop pumping people with endless stuff to keep them Talking at the 5 15 lecture series at the Tabernacle, Moggach described a positive event that stemmed from her experience. she was incarcerated my sister Briony and I used to pick up her post and Briony started to reply to the letters of a young schoolmaster who had always been very supportive. met him, they fell in love and married and had a son.

That little boy is in the world all because my mother put a plastic bag over head. that.