Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography-Fast Shipping

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On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P.D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any other in her distinguished career: shedecided to write a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Over the course of a yearshe set down not only the events and impressions of her extraordinarily active life,but also the memories, joys, discoveries, and crises of a lifetime. This enchantinglyoriginal volume is the result.

Time to Be in Earnest offers an intimate portraitof one of most accomplished women of our time. Here are vivid, revealing accountsof her school days in Cambridge in the 1920s and ’30s, her happy marriage and thetragedy of her husband’s mental illness, and the thrill of publishing her first novel,Cover Her Face, in 1962. As she recounts the decades of her exceptional life, Jamesholds forth with wit and candor on such diverse subjects as the evolution of thedetective novel, her deep love of the English countryside, her views of author toursand television adaptations, and her life-long obsession with Jane Austen. Wise andfrank, engaging and graceful, this “fragment of autobiography” will delight and surpriseP. D. James’s admirers the world over.