Jean Lucey Pratt,Simon Garfield: A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
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'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman's journey through the twentieth century.
When Bridie Chance discovers that her much-loved father is a highly successful criminal, and now dead, her world is shattered. With no home or friends and almost no money, she has to care for her family. But in this world of new people, how can she know who will be friends or enemies? Bridie holds a secret that she does not know she possesses, a secret many desire. As she struggles to support herself and her family amid the life of an Edwardian music hall, Bridie meets with failure and success, finds love, heartbreak, and danger. It is only when she endures a nightmare ordeal beneath the shadow of the Capricorn Stone that the masks are cast aside and the true faces of her friends and enemies are revealed to Bridie and the hope of a new life in America is awakened." This exciting reader follows the story of the longest and the most demanding elephant migration on the planet. Living at the furthest corners of the hot and dry Sahara Desert, the very margins of where elephants can survive, hundreds of these great creatures make a A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt download ebook dangerous but necessary journey as their main source of food and water dries up and they must go in search of more. Battling 120-degree heat, sandstorms, and fierce thunderstorms, these amazing animals travel 35 miles a day in a race against time in search of the bare essentials of life.
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Author: Jean Lucey Pratt,Simon Garfield
Number of Pages: 736 pages
Published Date: 01 Oct 2016
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Country: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781782115724
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