{"product_id":"negative-capability-9781913207519","title":"Negative Capability","description":"'Yesterday ended in disaster. Very late at night, I decided to write down everything that had happened; the only way I could think of coping.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing a series of devastating rejections, Michèle Roberts began keeping an account of her life in the hope it might help mend her shattered sense of self. In this intimate and wryly honest journal she reflects on cities and countryside, loss and love, food, friendships, sisterhood, pleasure and memories, her abiding relationship with France and with literature. Over the course of a year a new pattern of being develops, until, finally, she finds a better relationship between inner and outer worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoberts, Michèle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michèle Roberts is the author of fourteen critically acclaimed novels, including Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. She has also published poetry and short stories, and her most recent memoir, Negative Capability, was published to critical acclaim in 2020. Half-English and half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.","brand":"Sandstone Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424413778194,"sku":"9781913207519","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5718ef6e-07ce-4ca3-a72d-0f0270dbfb5d.jpg?v=1751375594","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/negative-capability-9781913207519","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}