![]() ![]() ![]() The Karks travelled a lot, and enjoyed entertaining their family and friends in their two homes, one in London on the Regent's canal and the other in Nafplio, a seaport on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese in Greece. At that point, Nina's output was as prolific as ever, and literary committees and parties (she loved the latter) kept her profile high. She and Austen, who was her second husband and a former head of what is now the BBC World Service, were both appointed CBE – Austen in 1987, Nina in 1995. ![]() Television adaptations of it were made in both 19. Her best-known children's book, Carrie's War, a story of two children evacuated from London to Wales in the second world war (as she had been), won the Phoenix award in 1995, 22 years after its first publication. In the 1990s, two of her best novels, Circles of Deceit (1987), which was shortlisted for the Booker prize, and Family Money (1991), were successfully televised. ![]()
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