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Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

English

By (author): 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

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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008347628

About Marina Warner

Marina Warner's 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.

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