{"product_id":"time-to-be-in-earnest-hb-w9","title":"Pd James: TIME TO BE IN EARNEST W9 [2015] hardback","description":"In this intriguing and very  personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve  months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back  on her earlier life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith all her familiar skills as a writer she  recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s and 1930s in  Cambridge, and then giving birth to her second daughter during the worst  of the Doodlebug bombardment in London during the war. It follows her  work, starting out as an administrator in the National Health Service,  then on to the Home Office in the forensic and criminal justice  departments. She later served as a Governor of the BBC, an influential  member of the British Council, the Arts Council and the Society of  Authors, and eventually entering the House of Lords.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, this diary and personal memoir deals with her burgeoning reputation as a novelist, starting with Cover Her Face in  1962, and with the craft of the classical detective story. She also  details the writing of one of her most intriguing and carefully  researched books, A Certain Justice. This wonderful memoir will  enthral aficionados of detective fiction, and will also appeal to anyone  who lived through those turbulent years of the twentieth century.","brand":"James, P. D.","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44309865267490,"sku":"9780571325696","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/james-pd-james-p-d-time-to-be-in-earnest-hb-w9-9780571325696-40346830799138.jpg?v=1673695972","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/time-to-be-in-earnest-hb-w9","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}