'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.
- ISBN10 0748127518
- ISBN13 9780748127511
- Publish Date 30 December 2011 (first published 1 June 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Virago Press Ltd
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 192
- Language English