A Life of One's Own

-This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.- - Marion Milner, from A Life of One-s Own.

How often do we really ask ourselves, -What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?- In A Life of One-s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psychoanalyst, artist and autobiographer takes us on an extraordinary and compelling seven-year inward journey to discover what it is that makes her happy.

On its first publication, W. H. Auden found the book -as exciting as a detective story- and, as Milner searches out clues, the reader quickly becomes involved in the chase. Using her own personal diaries, she analyses moments of everyday life that can bring surprising joy, such as walking, listening to music, and drawing. She also records, in a disarmingly clear and insightful manner, the struggle between the urge to order and c