 One lover, the Egyptian author Waguih Ghali, a depressive, committed suicide in her flat.Her most remarkable affair, about which she later wrote a book, was "a fleeting, and distinctly odd" relationship with Hakim Jamal, an American Black radical who asserted he was God and was a cousin of Malcolm X. Jamal's other lover, Gale Benson, was murdered by Trinidadian Black Power leader Michael X. Jamal was killed by others a year later.Athill's account of these events was published in 1993 as "Make Believe