{"product_id":"9781805330448","title":"Journey from the North: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the 20th century's finest memoirs of literary and political life, with an introduction by Vivian Gornick, who referred to the book as “literary gold”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stops you in your tracks. I would like to persuade everyone to read it” — \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compulsively readable, beautifully written account of a fascinating twentieth-century woman and life. This candid, affecting portrait of a woman who loathed domesticity explores how she sought to balance a literary career with political commitment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTowards the end of her life, the writer Storm Jameson began her memoir by asking, “can I make sense of my life?” This question propelled her through an extraordinary reckoning with how she had lived: her early years in Whitby, shadowed by her tempestuous, dissatisfied mother; an early, unhappy marriage and repeated flights from settled domesticity; a tenaciously pursued literary career, always dogged by a lack of money; and her lifelong political activism, including as the first female president of English PEN, helping refugees escape Nazi Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a richly ironic, conversational voice, Jameson tells also of the great figures she knew and events she witnessed: encounters with H.G. Wells and Rose Macaulay, travels in Europe as fascism was rising and a 1945 trip to recently liberated Warsaw. Throughout, she casts an unsparing eye on her own motivations and psychology, providing a rigorously candid and lively portrait of her life and times.","brand":"Pushkin Press Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451751272509,"sku":"9781805330448","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781805330448_p0.jpg?v=1771571106","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781805330448","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}