A Writing Woman
A Memoir in Many Lives
Will be published approx. on 4. February 2027
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-224-09777-2 (ISBN)
Description
A spellbinding memoir of a writing life
'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'
Three 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.
In A Writing Woman, 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.
Above all, it reveals the sustaining power of her curiosity and attention- to art, to nature, to other living beings. A Writing Woman is the story of a life lived in writing and confirms Blackburn as one of the most intriguing and original writers working today.
'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'
Three 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.
In A Writing Woman, 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.
Above all, it reveals the sustaining power of her curiosity and attention- to art, to nature, to other living beings. A Writing Woman is the story of a life lived in writing and confirms Blackburn as one of the most intriguing and original writers working today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
352 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-224-09777-2 (9780224097772)
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Person
Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize, Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize, Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography, and The Three of Us won the J.R. Ackerley Award. Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.