{"product_id":"a-notable-woman-the-romantic-journals-of-jean-lucey-pratt-9781782115724","title":"A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman's journey through the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Lucey Pratt \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1909 in Wembley, Middlesex and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire. She was a trainee architect, she was a publicist, she gardened, she took in lodgers, she read copiously, she wrote criticism, and in later years she ran a bookshop. But above all, she kept track of her life in the most lyrical of ways, from the age of 15 until just a few days before her death in 1986.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Simon Garfield\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of sixteen acclaimed books of non-fiction including \u003ci\u003eTo the Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Map\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJust My Type\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMauve\u003c\/i\u003e. His study of AIDS in Britain, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Somerset Maugham prize. www.simongarfield.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856728887570,"sku":"9781782115724","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_534ced1d-3a00-4458-8b45-12091cfeaedb.jpg?v=1737510935","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-notable-woman-the-romantic-journals-of-jean-lucey-pratt-9781782115724","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}