In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography

Description

Nina Bawden's career spans 20 adult novels and 17 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.

Nina Bawden's acclaimed careers has spanned twenty adult novels and seventeen for children. She was awarded a CBE in 1995, and lives in London and Greece.

'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 'Above all, she always writes so well, saying as much in these mere 175 pages as most autobiographers have managed in works twice as long and half as engaging.' INDEPENDENT 'Bawden writes with a frankness and honest that one can only admire.' TLS