Book description
Slipstream brilliantly illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a highly personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one of our most beloved British writers.
'This is a brave, absorbing and vulnerable book' - Guardian
Elizabeth looks back over…
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At 79, Howard looks back on her life. Beautiful and talented, she lacked any instinct for self-presevation, and was exploited by numerous well-known men of letters.
She drifted through life feeling helpless and disregarded, but unable to take any initiative, allowed her baby daughter to be taken away by a nanny, and ended up monstrously mistreated by her husband Kingsley Amis. The combination of miserable passivity and amazing frankness is unique, and I found this book unputdownable.
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