Elisabeths Lists by Lulah Ellender
A vivacious and moving portrait of a lost era and a lost grandmother, pieced together from an inherited book of handwritten lists.
[A] tender memoir.. A moving, evocative read. Five stars -- Eithne Farry * Sunday Express *
Go to your "books to read" list and place Elisabeth's Lists right at the top. It is charming without ever being whimsical and a vital voice as Elisabeth asserts her right to be more than simply a diplomat's daughter or ambassador's wife. A valuable record from a woman we are only now getting to know -- Damian Barr
This is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on life and death -- PD Smith * Guardian *
With great compassion and imagination, Elisabeth's grand-daughter Lulah tenderly brings to life the grandmother she never knew -- Elisa Segrave, author of * The Girl from Station X: My Mother's Unknown Life *
A lovely read * BBC Radio Scotland *
Varied, revealing, sad and funny. It wears its research lightly but still manages to inform and delight. I expect [...] readers will thoroughly enjoy it -- Gill Davies * Shiny New Books blog *
Vivid and atmospheric -- Martin Gayford * Chap *
Extraordinary... A love letter to the grandmother the writer never knew * People *
A perceptive and original first book, it is as much a meditation on the meaning of lists as it is a biography -- Bee Wilson * LRB *
An intelligent and moving family narrative -- Selected by Honor Clerk as a book of the year * Spectator *
Go to your "books to read" list and place Elisabeth's Lists right at the top. It is charming without ever being whimsical and a vital voice as Elisabeth asserts her right to be more than simply a diplomat's daughter or ambassador's wife. A valuable record from a woman we are only now getting to know -- Damian Barr
This is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on life and death -- PD Smith * Guardian *
With great compassion and imagination, Elisabeth's grand-daughter Lulah tenderly brings to life the grandmother she never knew -- Elisa Segrave, author of * The Girl from Station X: My Mother's Unknown Life *
A lovely read * BBC Radio Scotland *
Varied, revealing, sad and funny. It wears its research lightly but still manages to inform and delight. I expect [...] readers will thoroughly enjoy it -- Gill Davies * Shiny New Books blog *
Vivid and atmospheric -- Martin Gayford * Chap *
Extraordinary... A love letter to the grandmother the writer never knew * People *
A perceptive and original first book, it is as much a meditation on the meaning of lists as it is a biography -- Bee Wilson * LRB *
An intelligent and moving family narrative -- Selected by Honor Clerk as a book of the year * Spectator *
Lulah Ellender's writing has appeared in the Guardian, YOU magazine, EasyLiving and Green Parent, among others. She lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with her husband and four children. This is her first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783783854 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783783850 |
| Title | Elisabeths Lists |
| Author | Lulah Ellender |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2019-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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