- Paperback: 493 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; First edition edition (25 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333903498
- ISBN-13: 978-0333903490
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 386,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Claire Harman, Evening Standard, 04 November 2002
Her candour and honesty are impressive... her instinct to make something of all her experience... to be always busy building a raft from the wreckage.
Anthony Thwaite, Guardian
This is a brave, absorbing and vulnerable book... written with grace and humour as well as sadness - never bitterness... grippingly readable.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was curious, as I'd read Martin Amis' Experience and wanted to learn more about his beautiful and celebrated step-mother, Elizabeth Jane Howard. And, despite not having read any of her books, I was not disappointed. She writes with great candour and, at times, unflinching honesty. She is generous to those she loved, whether or not that love was returned. She writes movingly of her many friends, and of the power of such friendships. She can also be very funny. The book, though succinct, gathers a powerful momentum. I was moved by the unsentimental accounts of the deaths of those closest to her. It's all in the detail. Now I'm looking forward to reading her novels.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wanted to read this after seeing a serialisation of it in one of the Sunday papers, which concentrated on the relationship between the author and Kingsley Amis. Once dipped in, I was totally immersed. The characters are so finely drawn and I thought the whole thing raised many issues about feminism, art, relationships and psychology without referring to them directly or being very opinionated. I thought the author showed a great deal of humility and generosity to the other characters in her life and many of her experiences struck a chord with me. She made decisions and choices in her life diametrically opposed to what I would do, and yet wrote about it in such a way to keep me sympathetic to her. She has made me want to communicate with her directly.
There is a satisfying wholeness to this autobiography because it encompasses a life of nearly 80 years, taking you through all the phases - not just a crowing of some one who's made it and still has half their life to go.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The literary IT Girl of her day, EJH has given a self-searchingly honest account of her life with all the other cast (usually men) in possibly more detail than some of us would have expected. A kiss-and-tell involving many men, some no longer with us (but their families are, and I wonder how they feel?). I had imagined the Cazalets to be fictitous but here they all are, and many more. Great fun, it brilliantly evokes wartime homelife, the 40's acting scene and, of course, the literary world. An excellent read.
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