{"product_id":"9781846590900","title":"My Animal Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive—I really loved it.\"—Zadie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maggie Gee's account of her life as a writer cuts to the bone as she relives triumphs, rejections, despair and renewal. It's a wonderful book, for its boldness and vigour, and for its piercing honesty.\"—Claire Tomalin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you become a writer, and why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie Gee's journey starts in a small family in post-war Britain, a long way from the literary world. At seventeen, Maggie goes, a lamb to the slaughter, to university. From the 1960s onwards she lives the defining events of her generation: the coming of the Pill and sexual freedom, tremors in the British layer-cake of class and race. In the 1980s, Maggie finally gets published, falls in love, marries, and has a daughter—but for the next three decades and beyond, she survives, and sometimes thrives, by writing. This frank, bold memoir dares to explore the big questions: success and failure, sex, death, and parenthood—our animal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMaggie Gee\u003c\/b\u003e was chosen as one of Granta's original Best Young British Novelists. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including \u003ci\u003eThe White Family\u003c\/i\u003e , shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes; \u003ci\u003eMy Cleaner\u003c\/i\u003e ; \u003ci\u003eThe Flood\u003c\/i\u003e , longlisted for the Orange Prize; and \u003ci\u003eThe Ice People\u003c\/i\u003e . She was the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature from 2004–2008 and is now one of its vice presidents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Telegram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057518985456,"sku":"9781846590900","price":20.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846590900_p0.jpg?v=1763746569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846590900","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}