Time to Be in Earnest
Subtitle: A Fragment of Autobiography
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: February 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780345442123
Subjects: Literary; Personal Memoirs; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; 20th century; Authorship; Biography; Detective and mystery stories; Diaries; English novelists; Novelists, English; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: I am writing this sitting in an almost empty first-class compartment of the 3:32 train from Newton Abbot to Paddington, and staring out at the red Devon countryside, now blurred and seeming to dissolve in rain; even the eagerly awaited stretch of coast at Dawlish and Teignmouth failed in its usual magic.