{"product_id":"writing-woman-a-memoir-in-many-lives","title":"Writing Woman: A Memoir in Many Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding memoir of a writing life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I've been writing for most of my life, with hardly a pause, as if my survival depended on the process, which I suppose in a way it did.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree islands, two abandoned houses, a remote mountain village; Napoleon in exile, old man Goya, Billie Holiday's friends and lovers: Julia Blackburn's writing has always moved freely across time and terrain, drawing her life and work into intimate conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Writing Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Blackburn reflects on a life shaped by books but also by places, friendships and fleeting encounters. With tenderness and unsparing candour, she tells of loves and losses, illness, ageing and building a home, assembling scenes from past and present that have made indelible marks on her life and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, we see the sustaining power of her curiosity and attention - to art, to nature, to other living beings. \u003ci\u003eA Writing Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a life lived in writing and confirms Blackburn as one of the most intriguing and original writers working today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR JULIA BLACKBURN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[Her] writing of history and memory - both personal and public - are so deft as to seem effortless' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An astounding, disarming book, full of grief and beauty' \u003cb\u003eOlivia Laing (on \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDreaming the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eKaroo)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Blackburn's wise, wonderfully idiosyncratic books are poetic, informed by a drily downbeat humour and genius for serendipity' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful book... It made me deeply grateful that I am alive' \u003cb\u003eMax Porter (on \u003ci\u003eTime Song\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julia Blackburn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67792965992626,"sku":"9780224097772","price":535.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780224097772.jpg?v=1792804237","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/writing-woman-a-memoir-in-many-lives","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}