A bond has been forged between the mother of dragons and a postmodernist writer.
The Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke has discovered that her admiration for the late Jenny Diski, an experimental novelist and candid essayist, was reciprocal.
Whereas Diski’s spare prose helped the actress to cope with the death of her father, the writer liked nothing better than watching Clarke portray Daenerys Targaryen, the mother of dragons, in the fantasy TV series.
Clarke revealed last year to her millions of Instagram followers that she had discovered a posthumously published collection of Diski’s essays, which she said this week helped her as she grieved for her father.
One person who saw her Instagram post was Diski’s widower, Ian Patterson, a poet and life
