Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781860490316

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Genre: Biography & True Stories / Biography: General

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‘A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels’ INDEPENDENT

‘A joy’ David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH


‘Casts light on the perennially fascinating relationship between the life and works of a writer’ SUNDAY EXPRESS


Nina Bawden’s career spans twenty adult novels and seventeen for children. She turns now to her own story and in simple vignettes takes the reader through her life, revealing the inspirations of many of her books. It describes her childhood evacuation to Suffolk and Wales, and her years at Oxford where she met Richard Burton and Margaret Thatcher. And, she gives an account of her oldest son, Niki who was diagnosed schizophrenic.

Reviews

Bawden's observationsrestrained, expressive, often movingwill be best appreciated by those who share her love for the written word and by readers still not sated by her many fine book
Kirkus Reviews
A joy.
David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH
There is much in this delightful book about the business of being an author
Sunday Telegraph
A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels
Independent
... casts light on the perennially fascinating relationship between the life and works of a writer
Sunday Express
A joy
David Holloway, Daily Telegraph
casts light on the perennially fascinating relationship between the life and works of a writer.
SUNDAY EXPRESS
A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels.
INDEPENDENT
There is much in this delightful book about the business of being an author.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH