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A Life of My Own.

A Life of My Own.

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A Life of My Own.

by Tomalin, Claire

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0241239958
ISBN 13
9780241239957
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London: Viking / Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint ed.. Hardcover octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), few black & white text-photos, minor edgewear jacket (small dent rear cover). 331 pp. This memoir by Claire Tomalin follows her through triumph and tragedy (in equal measure) from the bad marriage of her parents, the difficult wartime childhood that followed, to her own marriage to the young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. He was killed on assignment as a war correspondent leaving her on her own to bring up their four children and make her own career. Claire became one of the most successful literary editors in London, and went on to discover her true vocation as a biographer, alongside overwhelming grief at the loss of a child. She sets her life in a wider cultural and political context, vividly and honestly portraying the social pressures on a woman in the 1950s and 1960s, and showing 'how it was for a European girl growing up in mid-20th-century England carried along by conflicting desires to have children and a worthwhile working life'.

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Bookhome Sydney AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
A Life of My Own.
Author
Tomalin, Claire
Book Condition
Used
Edition
Reprint ed.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0241239958
ISBN 13
9780241239957
Publisher
Viking / Penguin Books
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2017
Keywords
biography, autobiography, literature, novelists, britain
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Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.

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