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100 1  Tomalin, Claire. 
245 12 A life of my own :|ba memoir|h[Hoopla electronic resource]
       /|cClaire Tomalin. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2018. 
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511 0  Narrated by Penelope Wilton. 
520    Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire 
       Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature In A 
       Life of My Own, the renowned biographer of Charles Dickens,
       Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, and former literary editor
       for the Sunday Times reflects on a remarkable life 
       surrounded by writers and books. From discovering books as
       a form of escapism during her parents' difficult divorce, 
       to pursuing poetry at Cambridge, where she meets and 
       marries Nicholas Tomalin, the ambitious and striving 
       journalist, Tomalin always steered herself towards a 
       passionate involvement with art. She relives the 
       glittering London literary scene of the 1960s, during 
       which Tomalin endured her husband's constant philandering 
       and numerous affairs, and revisits the satisfaction of 
       being commissioned to write her first book, a biography of
       the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. In biography, she 
       found her vocation. However, when Nick is killed in 1973 
       while reporting in Israel, the mother of four put aside 
       her writing to assume the position of literary editor of 
       the New Statesman. Her career soared when she later moved 
       to the Sunday Times, and she tells with dazzling candor of
       this time in her life spent working alongside the literary
       lights of 1970s London. But, the pain of her young 
       daughter's suicide and the challenges of caring for her 
       disabled son as a single mother test Claire's strength and
       persistence. It is not until later in life that she is 
       able to return to what gave her such purpose decades ago, 
       writing biographies, and finds enduring love with her now-
       husband, playwright Michael Frayn. Marked by honesty, 
       humility, and grace, rendered in the most elegant of prose,
       A Life of My Own is a portrait of a life, replete with joy
       and heartbreak. With quiet insight and unsparing clarity, 
       Tomalin writes autobiography at its most luminous, 
       delivering an astonishing and emotionally taut 
       masterpiece. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
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