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Jean Lucey Pratt - A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt - 9781782115700 - KTK0095816
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A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

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Description for A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt Hardcover. Virginia Woolf meets Caitlin Moran - the extraordinary journals chronicling one ordinary woman's life, edited and introduced by Simon Garfield Editor(s): Garfield, Simon. Num Pages: 736 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1072. Some shelf wear, dustjacket
'Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she would keep for the rest of her life, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. For sixty years, no one had an inkling of her diaries' existence, and they have remained unpublished until now. Jean wrote about anything that amused, inspired or troubled her, laying bare her life with aching honesty, infectious humour, indelicate gossip and heartrending hopefulness. She recorded her yearnings and disappointments in love. She documented the loss of a tennis ... Read more

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782115700
SKU
KTK0095816
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jean Lucey Pratt
Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire. She was a trainee architect, she was a publicist, she gardened, she took in lodgers, she read copiously, she wrote criticism, and in later years she ran a bookshop. But above all, she kept track ... Read more

Reviews for A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
The most moving and important book I read this year by a mile: funny, tender and gripping
RACHEL COOKE

New Statesman

It's not only that Jean is a good writer: observant, funny and rather lyrical. Nor is it that she is so honest . . . Rather, it's that her journals, unfettered and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt


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