Slipstream

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'Constantly entertaining' Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times
In this candid and remarkable memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard tells the story of her eventful life, using her skills as a novelist to reveal the friends, family and times
that she has known and loved.
Born in 1923 and raised in the austere yet close embrace of a large Edwardian family,
privately educated at home, unsure of herself of her worth and of her intelligence, Elizabeth Jane Howard's story reflects that of a generation of English women. The war and short-lived careers as an actress, model and publishing editor gave her a degree of independence and experience that had been denied to her forebears, and brought her into contact with the artistic community that was .to encompass her professional and private life. Her first novel was published in 1950 and her most recent in 1999.
Her circle of friends has included some of the greatest writers and thinkers of the day — Laurie Lee, Arthur Koestler, Olivia Manning,... Tovább

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'Constantly entertaining' Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times
In this candid and remarkable memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard tells the story of her eventful life, using her skills as a novelist to reveal the friends, family and times
that she has known and loved.
Born in 1923 and raised in the austere yet close embrace of a large Edwardian family,
privately educated at home, unsure of herself of her worth and of her intelligence, Elizabeth Jane Howard's story reflects that of a generation of English women. The war and short-lived careers as an actress, model and publishing editor gave her a degree of independence and experience that had been denied to her forebears, and brought her into contact with the artistic community that was .to encompass her professional and private life. Her first novel was published in 1950 and her most recent in 1999.
Her circle of friends has included some of the greatest writers and thinkers of the day — Laurie Lee, Arthur Koestler, Olivia Manning, Cyril Connolly, Ken Tynan and Cecil Day-Lewis, among many others. She has been married three times — firstly to Peter Scott, the naturalist and son of Captain Scott, and most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis.
Slipstream is a superlative work of autobiography. Honest and unflinching, it brilliantly illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the twentieth century and gives a deeply personal insight into the life and mind of one of our most beloved British writers.
'Her candour and honesty are impressive, especially about the ageing process, illness and loneliness, but even more impressive iHier instinct to make something of all her experience, however horrible, to be always busy building a raft from the wreckage' Claire I"Iarman, Eveninp Standard
'Elizabeth Jane Howard offers a chillingly straightforward account of how women writers have been obliged to squeeze their creative lives into the tiny space left after everyone else's
needs have been taken care of ¦ Kathryn Hughes, Daily Telegraph
'[Elizabeth Jane Howard] has bravely decided to write a direct and factual account of herself It will move, enlighten, and perhaps startle' Anne ChislK>lni, Sunday 'Telegraph
'Slipstream creates an engaging portrait of the postwar bohemian circles in which
Howard moved' Claire Conville, New Statesman Vissza