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0008130817
A life discarded : 148 diaries found in a skip / Alexander Masters.
Publication year: 2017
Media class: Hardback
Category: Non-Fiction
Publisher: London : 4th Estate, 2017.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780008130817 (pbk.) :
Description:
In 2001, 148 tattered and mould-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation.
Diarists Great Britain.
History.
Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century.
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