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In My Own Time : Almost an Autobiography, Paperback / softback Book

In My Own Time : Almost an Autobiography Paperback / softback

Part of the Virago Modern Classics series

Paperback / softback

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'A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels' INDEPENDENT'A joy' David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH'Casts light on the perennially fascinating relationship between the life and works of a writer' SUNDAY EXPRESSNina Bawden's career spans twenty adult novels and seventeen 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.

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