‘The precious work’: from the correspondence between Oula Jones and Bernard Levin, 1981-1999

Abstract

In 1981, an editor at Jonathan Cape commissioned Oula Jones to index Conducted tour by Bernard Levin. Bernard was pleased to allow all his subsequent books to be indexed by Oula, and a friendship sprang up between author and indexer resulting in a correspondence of almost 20 years. Here are a few extracts from it.