"I read in almost at a sitting, so enjoyable and absorbing it was." - Tom Stoppard "Tremendously enjoyable. Beautifully written. A real pleasure." - Antonia Fraser "A terrific memoir. I particularly enjoyed the descriptions of literary editing, the observations on modern stage production and the childhood recollections in Jerusalem." - Michael Frayn "Acute, impassioned and dauntingly honest, this is the remarkable story of one of the great observers of our time." - Alain De Botton "As a record of a fulfilled life, Miriam Gross's account is almost startling - modest and well-written - exemplary." - Anita Brookner, Spectator "This memoir has the quality of a long conversation with a very interesting woman - it has enough packed into its 250-odd pages to supply other writers with material for any number of jumbo-sized novels - it is, to use Gross's highest term of literary commendation, so damnably readable." - John Sutherland, New Statesman "***** Riveting - remarkable - Miriam Gross has written far more than a delightfully candid account of her life at the centre of several overlapping power networks. In addition to her perceptive criticisms about literacy levels in schools, she has an interesting point to make about the persistence of 'genteel' anti-Semitism in this country." - Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday "Unfailingly intelligent and elegantly written, this memoir is absorbing reading - I lapped it up in one sitting." - Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph "Artfully written, An Almost English Life achieves what few memoirs might intend - it casts the world, rather than the writer, into the spotlight." Financial Times "Marvellous - Her interviews are classics of the genre." Standpoint
Miriam Gross, as a journalist and editor, has worked with some of the most influential figures of the 20th century - poets, philosophers, playwrights and politicians. This book offers recollections from 40 years at the heart of English cultural life. Brought up in wartime Jerusalem, she was deposited by her parents, speaking no English, at the bohemian Dartington Hall School; and then continued her education at Oxford where - eschewing her quiet, tea-drinking contemporaries at St Anne's - she found her way into more glamorous academic circles. From there it was a short hop to pre-spell-check Fleet Street. Her descriptions - whether she is having to mend her boss's bra on her first day at work, or rewriting Angus Wilson's slapdash book reviews, or being asked to make the women's pages of the Observer "more raunchy" - show a merciless eye for the bogus and the absurd. Alongside reflections on everything from feminism and motherhood to education and anti-semitism, she recounts her numerous infatuations, both requited and unrequited, with the sort of self-deprecating candour that makes this memoir a classic of its kind.
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