![]() Tomalin explains, in the foreword, that it has been a challenge moving between “the trivial and the tragic”. The book, absorbing, moving and marvellously written, will not let this question drop. ![]() But as one reads, one speculates about the difference between writing biographies, as Tomalin has with questing brilliance – on Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield, Dora Jordan, Nelly Ternan, Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Hardy – and writing about herself. It is outside the province of the book to explore the doubts in detail or to explain why she almost ditched it. ![]() A t the end of this memoir, in the acknowledgments, Claire Tomalin thanks her husband, Michael Frayn, for his patience in discussing “doubts and problems”, and for encouraging her to keep going when “I was close to giving up”. ![]()
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