Isla Dewar

Isla Dewar (29 June 1946 – 20 June 2021) was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter, known for her novel Women Talking Dirty, turned into a film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee. She wrote seventeen novels.

Biography Isla Dewar was born in Edinburgh to Ian White, a tax inspector, and Marjory (née Roberts). She attended Leith Academy and then worked in the lab of an Edinburgh yogurt factory, rather than attending university. She started her writing career working for teenage magazines including Jackie and Romeo.

Literary career She was a compulsive writer Dewar assisted the stars of the film with honing their Scottish accents. The story concerned the friendship and betrayals of two women living in 1970s Edinburgh. At the height of her career, Dewar published a book a year, and her work was translated into 17 languages.

Her seventeenth and final