A Writing Woman
A Memoir in Many Lives
$58.84
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2027
Summary
A spellbinding memoir of love, loss and literature, from one of the most intriguing and original writers working today.
A spellbinding memoir of a writing life.
“I’ve been writing for most of my life, with hardly a pause, as if my survival depended on the process, which I suppose in a way it did.”
Three islands, two abandoned houses, a remote mountain village; Napoleon in exile, old man Goya, Billie Holiday’s friends and lovers: Julia Blackburn’s writing has always mov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224097772 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224097776 |
| Author: | Julia Blackburn |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 138mm x 222mm |
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Critics Review
[Her] writing of history and memory - both personal and public - is so deft as to seem effortless * Spectator *
An astounding, disarming book, full of grief and beauty – Olivia Laing (on Dreaming the Karoo)
A wonderful book… It made me deeply grateful that I am alive – Max Porter (on Time Song)
Blackburn’s wise, wonderfully idiosyncratic books are poetic, informed by a drily downbeat humour and a genius for serendipity * New Statesman *
There are many beauties to be found in Blackburn’s writing * The Times *
Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn is an author of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Her works include:
- The Three of Us (Winner of the J. R. Ackerley Award)
- Threads (Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize)
- Time Song (Shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize)
- Thin Paths (Shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography)
- The Book of Colour (Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize)
- The Leper’s Companions (Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize)
She resides in Suffolk and Italy.
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