Author(s): Morris, Jan,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 02/05/2019,
Pagination: 336 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Faber & Faber,
Published By: FABER & FABER ,
Book Classification: Diaries & journals, Memoirs, Travel writing
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571340927

Description:
'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 ninety.

From cats to cars, travel to home, music to writing, it's a cornucopia of delights from a unique literary figure.