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A Writing Woman
  • Published: 4 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781448161225
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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A Writing Woman

A Memoir in Many Lives

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A spellbinding memoir of love, loss and literature, from one of the most intriguing and original writers working today

A spellbinding memoir of a writing life

‘I’ve been writing for most of my life, with hardly a pause, as if my survival depended on the process, which I suppose in a way it did.’

Three islands, two abandoned houses, a remote mountain village; Napoleon in exile, old man Goya, Billie Holiday’s friends and lovers: Julia Blackburn’s writing has always moved freely across time and terrain, drawing her life and work into intimate conversation.

In A Writing Woman, Blackburn reflects on a life shaped by books but also by places, friendships and fleeting encounters. With tenderness and unsparing candour, she tells of loves and losses, illness, ageing and building a home, assembling scenes from past and present that have made indelible marks on her life and writing.

Above all, we see the sustaining power of her curiosity and attention – to art, to nature, to other living beings. A Writing Woman is the story of a life lived in writing and confirms Blackburn as one of the most intriguing and original writers working today.
  • Published: 4 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781448161225
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
Categories:

About the author

Julia Blackburn

Julia Blackburn has written a number of books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. The Three of Us won the J. R. Ackerley Award, Threads won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award and the New Angle Prize, Time Song was shortlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize, and Thin Paths was shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography. Her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.
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Also by Julia Blackburn

The Book Of Colour
Threads
Thin Paths
Dreaming the Karoo
Time Song
The Need For Nonsense
The Three of Us
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Praise for A Writing Woman

An astounding, disarming book, full of grief and beauty

Olivia Laing (on Dreaming the Karoo)

A wonderful book… It made me deeply grateful that I am alive

Max Porter (on Time Song)

[Her] writing of history and memory - both personal and public - is so deft as to seem effortless

Spectator

Blackburn's wise, wonderfully idiosyncratic books are poetic, informed by a drily downbeat humour and a genius for serendipity

New Statesman

There are many beauties to be found in Blackburn's writing

The Times

Few writers are as brave as Blackburn

Independent