With her characteristic wisdom, she said last year, “I don’t talk about it a great deal for obvious reasons, not that I don’t grieve. Her oldest son Nick died in Los Angeles in 2013 at the age of 37. She wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film of her second novel Women Talking Dirty, which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKie.Ī loving mother to two sons, Nick and Adam, she was also a much loved grandmother to Ida and Sonny. She was the author of 17 novels, the last two – It Takes One to Know One (2018) and A Day Like Any Other (2020) – were published by Polgyon. She became a journalist, working on DC Thomson’s teenage magazines and newspapers for many years before becoming a freelancer and turning to fiction. She said, however, that she ‘learned to write at the school of suburban bedroom dreamers and deluded teens who longed to become poets. It was her combination of wit and warmth, her understanding of big dreams and her appreciation of simple pleasures that won her legions of devoted readers.Įdinburgh born and bred, Isla was educated at Leith Academy. While she listed her pleasures as cooking, drinking coffee and daydreaming, the Times called her ‘a realist, observant and needle-sharp and very funny’. Her age was a secret she guarded with wry good humour, replying ‘you’re kidding’ or ‘19– I forget’ when asked for her date of birth. Isla died on Sunday 20 June 2021, aged 71. She stayed safe during the pandemic lockdowns but could not survive a heart attack. She had pheasants outside her kitchen window and described herself as a writer and daydreamer. Novelist Isla Dewar lived in Fife with her husband of more than fifty years, Bob, an artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
This is something I share with Humphrey Bogart.’ Isla Dewar, who said, ‘I look better in black and white.
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