A Notable Woman - The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

''Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing'' HILARY MANTEL

In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman''s journey through the twentieth century.