In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography (Virago Modern Classics)

In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography (Virago Modern Classics)

by NinaBawden (Author)

Synopsis

Nina Bawden's career spans 20 adult novels and 17 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Virago
Published: 01 Jun 1995

ISBN 10: 186049031X
ISBN 13: 9781860490316

Media Reviews
A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels. * INDEPENDENT *
A joy. * David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH *
There is much in this delightful book about the business of being an author. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
casts light on the perennially fascinating relationship between the life and works of a writer. * SUNDAY EXPRESS *
Author Bio
Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's best-loved writers for both adults and children. Several of her children's books - Carrie's War, a Phoenix Award winner;The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Fiction Award; and Keeping Henry - have become contemporary classics. She wrote over forty novels, slightly more than half of which are for adults, and she was shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. She received the prestigious S T Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004, and in 2010 The Birds on the Trees was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.