A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
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- Synopsis
- A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean&’s diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess&” (The Pool). In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly, and so vividly captured a single woman&’s journey through the twentieth century. &“Jean&’s journals are timeless. She leaps out of her own pages, free as she never was in life: you want to protect her, and simultaneously to slap her and cheer her on. It&’s very funny, occasionally sobering, and shot through with acute insights. Who would have imagined that the life of a Buckinghamshire bookseller would make you want to turn the pages so fast? I wanted to know how she got through the war, but I was even more interested in when she would lose her virginity.&” —Hilary Mantel, New York Times–bestselling author &“Shows us, in close up, how extraordinary the business of an &‘ordinary&’ life can be—how much complexity and feeling and humour it can contain.&” —The Guardian &“The most moving and important book I read this year by a mile.&” —New Statesman &“What makes these diaries such pleasurable reading is one&’s sense of the diarist herself: her vibrancy and humour, her idea of life as a battle to overcome and, most of all, her endless supply of hope and her refusal to be beaten.&” —Literary Review
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 737 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781782115717
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781782115724
- Publisher:
- Canongate Books
- Date of Addition:
- 12/18/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Canongate Books
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Simon Garfield