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What is My Animal Life about?

"A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be aliveI really loved it."Zadie Smith "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 How do you become a writer, and why? Maggie 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 daughterbut 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 parenthoodour animal life. Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original Best Young British Novelists. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including The White Family , shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes; My Cl

Who reads My Animal Life?

Author

Gee, Maggie, 1948-

Publisher

Telegram Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846599873

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.79 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14