Where the Bomb Falls

Clair Wills reviewed A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner for the London Review of Books.

“Reading Milner’s first two books I too found it hard not to fall a bit in love with her. She’s so obviously telling the truth. She includes embarrassing entries in which all she is concerned about is how she looks (‘I’ve discovered where a great part of my thought goes. I was thinking about my new frock and red shoes’; ‘I was quite dismayed to discover the depths of my own self-absorption’).”

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