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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Sandstone Press Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781913207519

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 272

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 20, 2020

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Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

Michele Roberts

Yesterday ended in disaster. Very late at night, I decided to write down everything that had happened; the only way I could think of coping. So here goes.So begins Michele Roberts’s intimate and honest account of the year after her latest novel has been rejected by her then publisher. Written with warmth and sensitivity, she navigates the difficult road from depression and anxiety to acceptance and understanding of the value of the friendships which nurture her and make life worth living – whatever happens.

Reviews of Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

'Michele Roberts has always been a terrific, complex writer with a natural tone, a tone of her own, and Negative Capability is among the best of her books.' * Andrew O'Hagan * 'Funny, wise and all-embracing' * Carmen Callil * 'Michele Roberts is a writer who has always excelled at embodying the joy of female intellectual and earthly appetites.' * Deborah Levy * 'A magnificent writer.' * Helen Dunmore, The Guardian * 'A wonderful writer: one in possession of immense feeling' * Rachel Cooke, The Observer *

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Michele Roberts

Michele Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and, most recently, the highly-acclaimed Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2013. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud: Stories of Sex and Love.Half-English and half-French, Michele Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.