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Description: Inventory of a Life Mislaid by Marina Warner A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination JENNY UGLOW FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warners beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smiths. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean.Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warners parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warners parents, friends and associates are still restlessly wandering. Author Biography Marina Warners study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (2011) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013; in 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature. Review Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination, shimmering with images, sounds and scents, conjuring a clash of lives, worlds and wordsJenny UglowA captivating re-creation of her childhood in a lost Cairo, so incomparably louche, sensuous and fragrant, and of her parents improbable marriageFerdinand MountAn entrancing weave of memoir, history, autobiography and fiction, this adventurous book voyages through time and space to re-discover, re-imagine and reinvent a lost world. One of Marina Warners most beautiful worksMichèle RobertsMoving and original … Warners view of the past is always precise, at once generous and exacting. She has a gift for using objects to conjure up characters, feelings and atmospheres … Poignant and exquisitely crafted, Inventory of a Life Mislaid is bound to become a classicCatriona SethA poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England … EvocativeMargaret DrabbleHigh-risk and multidimensional … Warner brings to these pages a lifetime of thinking about stories and the ways in which they shape our livesLiterary ReviewThis is a wonderful rich, partly mythical memoir that sifts through the past to connect a familys secrets to the deep-rooted colonial assumptions that still resonate in a post-Brexit Britain … never dull … Eloquent and heartbreakingTLSPoignant and mythicalNew StatesmanThe most intriguing memoir … Marina Warners subtle, exotic and angry account of her parents marriageRoy Foster, TLS, Books of the YearWarner is such a skilful and imaginative writer that much of …the book reads like lived experience … the happiest of concoctions, a mix of fiction and fact, observation and speculation …This brave, painful, dazzling memoir is rivetingSpectator Long Description A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warners beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman. With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smiths. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean. Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warners parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warners parents, friends and associates are still restlessly wandering. Review Quote Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination, shimmering with images, sounds and scents, conjuring a clash of lives, worlds and words Jenny Uglow As delicate as the lace her mother hemmed, as sharp as the facets of the diamond rings her mother lost, Marina Warners Inventory of a Life Mislaid is a captivating re-creation of her childhood in a lost Cairo, so incomparably louche, sensuous and fragrant, and of her parents improbable marriage Ferdinand Mount An entrancing weave of memoir, history, autobiography and fiction, this adventurous book voyages through time and space to re-discover, re-imagine and reinvent a lost world. One of Marina Warners most beautiful works Mich Feature * BELOVED AND AWARD WINNING WRITER. Marina Warner is one of the worlds best loved novelists and short story writers, known also for her prolific nonfiction, often on myth and feminism. She has been everything from chair of judges for the Booker to president of the RSL. She is Booker shortlisted, and has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the British Academy Medal for lifetime achievement. * POST-WAR STORY OF CHILDHOOD IN CAIRO. Marina offers a vision of a lost post-war world. She tells the wartime romance of her parents in all its complexity (the difficulties she discovered from her mothers diaries later on, the clash of cultures in wartime England), and the story of her own childhood, adolescence and life thereafter. Competition: Rosie;Motherwell;Out of Egypt;A Net for Small Fishes;The Yacoubian Building;A Ghost in the Throat;All the Tomorrows. Rose Tremain;Deborah Orr;Maggie OFarrell;Nina Stibbe;Joan Didion;Andre Aciman;Alaa Al Aswany;Kate Clanchy;Helen Castor;Angela Carter;Natalie Haynes;Lucy Jago;Nillu Nasser;Kate Mosse Description for Sales People A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warners beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman. With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smiths. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean. Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warners parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warners parents, friends and associates are still restlessly wandering. Gold title * BELOVED AND AWARD WINNING WRITER. Marina Warner is one of the worlds best loved novelists and short story writers, known also for her prolific nonfiction, often on myth and feminism. She has been everything from chair of judges for the Booker to president of the RSL. She is Booker shortlisted, and has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the British Academy Medal for lifetime achievement. * POST-WAR STORY OF CHILDHOOD IN CAIRO. Marina offers a vision of a lost post-war world. She tells the wartime romance of her parents in all its complexity (the difficulties she discovered from her mothers diaries later on, the clash of cultures in wartime England), and the story of her own childhood, adolescence and life thereafter. Competition: Rosie;Motherwell;Out of Egypt;A Net for Small Fishes;The Yacoubian Building;A Ghost in the Throat;All the Tomorrows. Rose Tremain;Deborah Orr;Maggie OFarrell;Nina Stibbe;Joan Didion;Andre Aciman;Alaa Al Aswany;Kate Clanchy;Helen Castor;Angela Carter;Natalie Haynes;Lucy Jago;Nillu Nasser;Kate Mosse Details ISBN000834762X Author Marina Warner Year 2022 ISBN-10 000834762X ISBN-13 9780008347628 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-03-03 UK Release Date 2022-03-03 Pages 432 Imprint William Collins Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle An Unreliable Memoir Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780008347581 DEWEY 823.914 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-09-15 NZ Release Date 2022-09-15 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160752283;

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