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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR INVENTORY OF A LIFE MISLAID '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 '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 Warner's most beautiful works' Michele Roberts 'Moving and original ... Warner's 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 classic' Catriona Seth 'Marina Warner's memoir is a poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents' marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England and all the difficulties that entailed. It's full of evocative flash backs and cherished objects keenly remembered- at once a treasure house of family memories and a history of an epoch' Margaret Drabble PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORKS 'Warner is always intelligent, writes with great elegance and bubbles over with new ideas and impressions. Many will enjoy her style, wide range of literary reference and infectious enthusiasm' Irish Times 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Times Literary Supplement 'Elegantly concise' Literary Review 'Wide ranging and handsomely produced' Rowan Williams, New Statesman '[A] wise, witty, elegant, little book' Amanda Craig, Mslexia

'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 Warner's 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 Warner's most beautiful works' Michele Roberts 'Moving and original ... Warner's 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 classic' Catriona Seth 'Marina Warner's memoir is a poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents' marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England and all the difficulties that entailed. It's full of evocative flash backs and cherished objects keenly remembered- at once a treasure house of family memories and a history of an epoch' Margaret Drabble 'High-risk and multidimensional ... Warner brings to these pages a lifetime of thinking about stories and the ways in which they shape our lives' Literary Review 'This is a wonderful rich, partly mythical memoir that sifts through the past to connect a family's secrets to the deep-rooted colonial assumptions that still resonate in a post-Brexit Britain ... never dull ... Eloquent and heartbreaking' TLS 'This memoir, built of letters, journal entries and photographs, is poignant and mythical' New Statesman

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORKS 'Warner is always intelligent, writes with great elegance and bubbles over with new ideas and impressions. Many will enjoy her style, wide range of literary reference and infectious enthusiasm' Irish Times 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Times Literary Supplement 'Elegantly concise' Literary Review 'Wide ranging and handsomely produced' Rowan Williams, New Statesman '[A] wise, witty, elegant, little book' Amanda Craig, Mslexia

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR INVENTORY OF A LIFE MISLAID 'Poignant and exquisitely crafted, Inventory of a Life Mislaid is bound to become a classic' Catriona Seth PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORKS 'Warner is always intelligent, writes with great elegance and bubbles over with new ideas and impressions. Many will enjoy her style, wide range of literary reference and infectious enthusiasm' Irish Times 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Times Literary Supplement 'Elegantly concise' Literary Review 'Wide ranging and handsomely produced' Rowan Williams, New Statesman '[A] wise, witty, elegant, little book' Amanda Craig, Mslexia

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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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