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Article: True to the chaos of life; A novelist pulls back from fiction to detail the events that informed it.(Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2002
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Byline: CLAIRE HARMAN
SLIPSTREAM: A Memoir by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Macmillan, pound sterling20) ELIZABETH Jane Howard admits to being "a very slow learner", perhaps not a learner at all: "often I have had to repeat the same disastrous situation several times before I got the message," she writes. "I feel as though I've lived my life in the slipstream of experience." This sense of being out of step with herself makes her a very congenial memoirist. Perhaps it takes an immensely accomplished novelist to be as true to the chaos of real life as she seems to be here.
The autobiographical basis of Howard's novels, especially the wonderful Cazelet series, ...
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