Does May Maxwell live with Bond?

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• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,828MI6 Agent

  November 2012

  osris wrote:

  Does May Maxwell live with Bond, and if so does she know he works for MI6? I haven’t read all the novels so don’t know this?

  
  Yes, May lives with Bond. She's his 'Scottish treasure' - the woman who cleans and tidies his Chelsea flat off the King's Road and who cooks for him. She certainly knows that he works for the Secret Intelligence Service, or some such official government department.

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
• osris Posts: 558MI6 Agent

  November 2012

  Silhouette Man wrote:

  osris wrote:

  Does May Maxwell live with Bond, and if so does she know he works for MI6? I haven’t read all the novels so don’t know this?

  
  Yes, May lives with Bond. She's his 'Scottish treasure' - the woman who cleans and tidies his Chelsea flat off the King's Road and who cooks for him. She certainly knows that he works for the Secret Intelligence Service, or some such official government department.

  
  
  Thanks.
• Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters

  November 2012

  Just out of curiosity, where is May's surname revealed to be Maxwell? I don't seem to remember any reference to that.
• osris Posts: 558MI6 Agent

  November 2012

  Golrush007 wrote:

  Just out of curiosity, where is May's surname revealed to be Maxwell? I don't seem to remember any reference to that.

  
  I don't know. I haven't read all the novels. I just got it off Wikipedia:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_allies#May_Maxwell
• zaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent

  November 2012

  Not aware that her surname is ever used/revealed. Happy to be proved wrong though.
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,828MI6 Agent

  November 2012 edited November 2012

  It's mentioned in John Pearson's bio of James Bond from 1973, entitled JAMES BOND: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF 007.
  
  There'a a 2006 reprint.

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,828MI6 Agent

  November 2012

  osris wrote:

  Silhouette Man wrote:

  osris wrote:

  Does May Maxwell live with Bond, and if so does she know he works for MI6? I haven’t read all the novels so don’t know this?

  
  Yes, May lives with Bond. She's his 'Scottish treasure' - the woman who cleans and tidies his Chelsea flat off the King's Road and who cooks for him. She certainly knows that he works for the Secret Intelligence Service, or some such official government department.

  
  
  Thanks.

  
  My pleasure.
  
  In John Gardner's NOBODY LIVES FOREVER, Miss Moneypenny and May are kidnapped and Bond has to go in search of them.

  "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 37,517Chief of Staff

  November 2012

  In my copy of the Pearson book cited above, May's surname is given as McGrath.
  
  It's been my understanding that May Maxwell was the name of the real-life lady Fleming based the character on, who worked for his close friend Ivar Bryce.
  
  And in the Gardner book, the author has a hard time using May and Moneypenny as hostage characters without mentioning either May's surname or Moneypenny's first name!
• James Suzuki New ZealandPosts: 2,406MI6 Agent

  November 2012

  It would be neat if they brought her into the film series.
  As a one film character that would be quite cool, and also a chance of seeing Bond's flat since LALD

  “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. "
  -Casino Royale, Ian Fleming