
There’s going to be 15% there that you mightn’t like but can you manage it? James Carpenter I just thought I like that lady.” You should be looking roughly at about 85%. “I did trust my instincts, trust my judgment and. While he hadn’t planned on getting involved with anyone so soon after arriving in Sydney, he was drawn to Shepherd. We just got on well.” He was similarly captivated by Shepherd, who was the editor of Family Circle at the time.īoth had been married previously, with Carpenter recently divorced. Shepherd remembers thinking not only that he was handsome but that she liked him as a person. The couple met at a party a few weeks later and the flatmate was proved right. He turned up on her doorstep and, Shepherd says, her friend took one look at him and thought “He’s for Kandy.” “I was oblivious of course,” says Carpenter. Carpenter, who’d been working in Canberra, was transferred to Sydney and looking for somewhere to live. In 1988, a close friend of Shepherd’s was searching for a flatmate.
