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In My Own Time

Almost an Autobiography

Nina Bawden author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:1st Jun '95

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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.

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 *
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 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 *

ISBN: 9781860490316

Dimensions: 202mm x 126mm x 14mm

Weight: 220g

192 pages