The Hon. Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (born 20 October 1937) is a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Daughter, Daisy, with third husband, journalist Alexander Cockburn.
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Daughter, Rose (born in 1973), with publisher Michael Dempsey.
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At age 26, she published the novel "The Colour of Rain" under the name Catherine Aydy. The name and title were both reportedly arrived at by the manipulations of a Ouija board.