 Her novel "Fly Away Home" won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.From the 1960s to the early 1990s, Tindall also worked as a journalist, writing stories for "The Guardian", "The Evening Standard", "The Times", and "The Independent" – and for many years she was a regular guest on the BBC Radio 3 arts discussion programme, "Critics' Forum".Since 1963 she has lived in Kentish Town, North London.