Hunter Davies

Letters to Margaret (MP3-Download)

Confessions to my Late Wife Ungekürzte Lesung. 371 Min.
Sprecher: Stewart, James Cameron

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Letters to Margaret: Confessions to my Late Wife by Hunter Davies, read by James Cameron Stewart. At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask the naturally gregarious and outgoing Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his day in the worlds of journalism and publishing. In the six years that have elapsed since Margaret's death, Hunter has continued these conversations with his wife, regaling her with accounts of the events and developments in his life – domestic, social, romantic, book-related, health-related and others – through a sequence of 'Letters to Margaret'. The letters are pure Hunter Davies: a feast of gossipy stream-of-consciousness that weaves together strands of confession, self-mockery, anecdote and touching remembrance of married happiness with Margaret. Entertaining, informative, irreverent and indiscreet – and sometimes very touching – Letters to Margaret reveals an eighty-seven-year-old Hunter still raging against the dying of the light, and seeking consolation for life's frustrations and disappointments (and the loneliness of widowerhood) through a sustained conversation with the woman he shared his life with for more than half a century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apollo
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781035907946
• Artikelnr.: 70746110

Autorenporträt

Hunter Davies is a prolific author, journalist and broadcaster who has written for Punch, the New Statesman, Guardian and Sunday Times. He is the author of more than 100 books, including the only authorized biography of The Beatles and biographies of Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and Alfred Wainwright. He spent every summer in the Lake District for nearly half a century and his Lakeland: A Personal Journey was published by Head of Zeus in 2016. He now divides his time between North London and the Isle of Wight.

Rezensionen

Praise for Hunter Davies: Affable, curious, unpretentious, never dull, Hunter is one of the most agreeable egomanics I know - Michael Palin Brilliantly funny - Daily Mail Easy-going, humorous and a natural journalist, Hunter Davies comes across as a thoroughly nice man