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  • A Diary of Surviving
  • By: Michele Roberts
  • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
  • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary

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. So here goes.

So begins Michele Roberts’ intimate and honest account of the year after her latest novel has been rejected by her then publisher. Written with warmth and sensitivity, she navigates the difficult road from depression and anxiety to acceptance and understanding of the value of the friendships which nurture her and make life worth living - whatever happens.

Michele Roberts is the author of 12 highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WH Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and, most recently, the highly acclaimed Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2013. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 

She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud: Stories of Sex and Love. Half-English and half-French, Michele Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is emeritus professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

©2020 Michele Roberts (P)2020 W F Howes

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“A wonderful writer: one in possession of immense feeling.” (The Observer

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A year in the life…..

What happens when a successful author falls out of fashion and isn’t so “marketable”any more. This book recounts a year which begins with Michele Robert’s’ latest novel being rejected by her longtime publisher.
She is comforted by Keats’ philosophy of negative capability, which could be translated as going with the flow and accepting what is. This is the thread which runs through this insightful and cleverly written book, moving between France and London, encompassing friendship, loss, disappointment and small joys. Intimate and honest, and very well read.

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