 They had two sons, Sean (adopted by Sansom; the son of Ruth Grundy's previous marriage to Grey Wilson Blake) and Nicholas.As well as exploring war-torn London, Sansom's writing deals with romance ("The Face of Innocence"), murder ("Various Temptations"), comedy ("A Last Word") and supernatural horror ("A Woman Seldom Found").The latter, perhaps his most anthologized story, combines detailed description with narrative tension to unravel a young man's encounter with a bizarre creature in Rome.