Book description
Journey of a Lifetime
was Gillian Tindall’s first collection of short stories since The
China Egg
, which was published in 1982. Eight stories relate to travel and/or
foreign lands, while the ninth is about a foreigner in England. The
title story, ostensibly very much of the real world, gradually reveals a
darker and odder side, as does In A Past Life
, originally read on Radio 4. All twelve stories of the collection,
while they vary greatly in mood and treatment, explore in one way or
another the subject of identity and memory - with wit, high intelligence
and the confidence of a writer whose first book of short stories,
Dances With Death
, met with universal acclaim on its publication in 1973. Gillian
Tindall began her career as a prize-winning novelist. She has continued
to publish fiction but has also staked out an impressive territory in
idiosyncratic non-fiction that is brilliantly evocative of place.
Her The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village
which first appeared thirty years ago, has rarely been out of print;
nor has Celestine: Voices from a French Village
, published in the mid 1990s and translated into several languages, for
which she was decorated by the French government.
Well known for the quality of her writing and the meticulous nature of
her research, Gillian is a master of miniaturist history. She lives with
her husband in London.
