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| Claire Walsh with JG Ballard in Paris, when Ballard was publicising his novel Empire of the Sun (1984). Photograph: Sophie Bassouls/Rush |
Claire Walsh obituary
Will Self
Tuesday 14 October 2014 14.41 BST
Claire Walsh, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a well-known figure in the London literary and artistic world of the 1960s and 70s. She was the long-time companion of the writer JG Ballard, and a valuable support throughout much of his writing life. According to Jenny, her daughter from a previous relationship: "[Ballard] explored ideas long before he got to the plot for a novel or short story, and my mother was the ideal intellectual sounding board to tease out his thoughts. She was voraciously curious with a gift for research; this fed Jimmy's imagination."
