1. Isla Dewar was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter, known for her novel Women Talking Dirty, turned into a film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee.
15 Facts About Isla Dewar
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Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh to Ian White, a tax inspector, and Marjory.
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Isla Dewar attended Leith Academy and then worked in the lab of an Edinburgh yogurt factory, rather than attending university.
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Isla Dewar started her writing career working for teenage magazines including Jackie and Romeo.
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Isla Dewar married cartoonist Bob Dewar in 1966, and had two sons.
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Isla Dewar died, aged 74, of a heart attack at her home in Fife.
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Isla Dewar was a compulsive writer and her first writing job was writing about girls trying to find boyfriends for Romeo romance weekly in Dundee.
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Isla Dewar wrote about subjects that were thought to interest girls and she did some writing as an agony aunt.
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Isla Dewar wrote for My Weekly which was based in Dundee.
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Isla Dewar moved to John and Furnish's mansion in Windsor where she worked on the screenplay.
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Isla Dewar used a book by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids screenwriter William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade, to explain the details of scriptwriting.
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Isla Dewar assisted the stars of the film with honing their Scottish accents.
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At the height of her career, Isla Dewar published a book a year, and her work was translated into 17 languages.
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Isla Dewar was inspired to write the story after seeing two smartly dressed women outside a supermarket laughing with each other.
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Isla Dewar said that she was able to write it because she was older.