A Life of My Own

Claire Tomalin

A Life of My Own
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 July 2018
Pages
352
ISBN
9780241974834

A Life of My Own

Claire Tomalin

As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life.

This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed, to her own marriage to the brilliant young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. When he was killed on assignment as a war correspondent she was left to bring up their four children - and at the same time make her own career.

She writes of the intense joys of a fascinating progression as she became one of the most successful literary editors in London before discovering her true vocation as a biographer, alongside overwhelming grief at the loss of a child.

Writing with the elan and insight which characterize her biographies, Claire Tomalin sets her own life in  a wider cultural and political context, vividly and frankly portraying the social pressures on a woman in the Fifties and Sixties, and showing ‘how it was for a European girl growing up in mid-twentieth-century England … carried along by conflicting desires to have children and a worthwhile working life.

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