The pacific Mary and the stricken Christ. Aware of Marian art, face expressionless, as it is here, but there is no bouncing boy on her knee, but a lifeless young man, beautifully detailed in all his humanity, so the whole sculpture is bringing previous Mary’s to mind and saying ‘Look what happened.’

Her gloved hand has main character energy.

Auntie Ellen was one of my favourite vox pops ever, please tell her she's a gem

Congratulations to the FT, quite the few days. Staggering story. I’ll let Ellen know your lovely compliment

This is lovely, although not necessarily about Henry James, but a loud Yes! for Liz Lochead, whose Mary Queen of Scots play knocked me out when I saw it

Think that was the name of his last, unpublished, collection