"In this, her first memoir, she tells the story of her journey from aJewish childhood in Leicester to the undergraduate world of post-war Cambridge, the excitement of friendships in the literary world and the tensions of a poet's writing life inside a long and sometimes painful marriage. This book, howevr, is not only the intimate memoir of one of Britain's finest poets and novelists : it is also the story of a rapidly changing country and of an entire generation of authors"-- Back cover.

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