As one of the finest biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written definitively about Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy. Now for the first time, she turns to her own life. A Life of My Own follows Tomalin through triumph and tragedy, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and her often difficult wartime childhood because of it to her own marriage to the brilliant young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. She relives the glittering...