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=== Repatriate years === Burgess was invalided home in 1959<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|p=243}}.</ref> and relieved of his position in Brunei. He spent some time in the neurological ward of a London hospital (see ''[[The Doctor is Sick]]'') where he underwent cerebral tests that found no illness. On discharge, benefiting from a sum of money which Lynne Burgess had inherited from her father, together with their savings built up over six years in the East, he decided to become a full-time writer. The couple lived first in an apartment in [[Hove]], near Brighton. They later moved to a semi-detached house called "Applegarth" in [[Etchingham]], about four miles from Bateman's where [[Rudyard Kipling]] had lived in [[Burwash]], and one mile from the [[Robertsbridge]] home of [[Malcolm Muggeridge]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|p=280}}.</ref> Upon the death of Burgess's father-in-law, the couple used their inheritance to decamp to a terraced town house in [[Chiswick]]. This provided convenient access to the [[BBC Television Centre]] where he later became a frequent guest. During these years Burgess became a regular drinking partner of the novelist [[William S. Burroughs]]. Their meetings took place in London and [[Tangiers]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|p=325}}.</ref> A sea voyage the couple took with the Baltic Line from [[Tilbury]] to [[Leningrad]] in June 1961<ref>{{Harvnb|Biswell|2006|p=237}}.</ref> resulted in the novel ''Honey for the Bears''. He wrote in his autobiographical ''You've Had Your Time'' (1990), that in re-learning [[Russian language|Russian]] at this time, he found inspiration for the Russian-based slang [[Nadsat]] that he created for ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', going on to note, "I would resist to the limit any publisher's demand that a glossary be provided."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Craik|first1=Roger|s2cid=162676494|title='Bog or God' in A Clockwork Orange|journal=ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews|date=January 2003|volume=16|issue=4|pages=51β54|doi=10.1080/08957690309598481}}</ref><ref group='Notes' name='a'>A British edition of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' (Penguin 1972; {{ISBN|0-14-003219-3}}) and at least one American edition did have a glossary. A note added: "For help with the Russian, I am indebted to the kindness of my colleague Nora Montesinos and a number of correspondents."</ref> [[Liana Burgess|Liana Macellari]], an [[Italian language|Italian]] translator twelve years younger than Burgess, came across his novels ''[[Inside Mr. Enderby]]'' and ''A Clockwork Orange'', while writing about English fiction.<ref name=TelegDec07>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571513/Liana-Burgess.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571513/Liana-Burgess.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Liana Burgess|date=5 December 2007|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=30 April 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The two first met in 1963 over lunch in [[Chiswick]] and began an affair. In 1964, Liana gave birth to Burgess's son, Paolo Andrea. The affair was hidden from Burgess's [[alcoholic]] wife, whom he refused to leave for fear of offending his cousin (by Burgess's stepmother, Margaret Dwyer Wilson), [[George Dwyer]], the [[Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds]].<ref name=TelegDec07 /> Lynne Burgess died from [[cirrhosis of the liver]], on 20 March 1968.<ref name="Oxfordbiog" /> Six months later, in September 1968, Burgess married Liana, acknowledging her four-year-old boy as his own, although the birth certificate listed Roy Halliday, Liana's former partner, as the father.<ref name=TelegDec07 /> Paolo Andrea (also known as Andrew Burgess Wilson) died in London in 2002, aged 37.<ref>{{Harvnb|Biswell|2006|p=4}}.</ref> Liana died in 2007.<ref name=TelegDec07 />
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