- Title:
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In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary
- Written by:
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Jan Morris
- Read by:
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Phyllida Nash
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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6 hours 31 minutes
- Published:
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January 28 2019
- Available Date:
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January 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489481603
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; British; Lifestyle - Travel; Writer
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
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Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection.
'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'
So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the Financial Times over the course of 2017.
A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here in her characteristically intimate voice – funny, perceptive, wise, touching, wicked, scabrous, and above all, kind – about her thoughts on the world, and her own place in it as she turns 90. From cats to cars, travel to home, music to writing, it's a cornucopia of delights from a unique literary figure.
'A thing of wonder: a diary of daily musings with zero pretension. It is light yet profound, ecstatic yet melancholy, ethereal yet droll.'
The Evening Standard
'Morris is one of Britain's greatest living writers.'
The Times
'A splendidly quirky confection which mixes the trivial with the serious, like life.'
Literary Review