<p>‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination, shimmering with images, sounds and scents, conjuring a clash of lives, worlds and words’<br /><strong>Jenny Uglow</strong></p>
<p>‘A captivating re-creation of her childhood in a lost Cairo, so incomparably louche, sensuous and fragrant, and of her parents’ improbable marriage’<br /><strong>Ferdinand Mount</strong></p>
<p>‘An entrancing weave of memoir, history, autobiography and fiction, this adventurous book voyages through time and space to re-discover, re-imagine and reinvent a lost world. One of Marina Warner's most beautiful works’<br /><strong>Michèle Roberts</strong></p>
<p>‘Moving and original … Warner’s view of the past is always precise, at once generous and exacting. She has a gift for using objects to conjure up characters, feelings and atmospheres … Poignant and exquisitely crafted, Inventory of a Life Mislaid is bound to become a classic’<br /><strong>Catriona Seth</strong></p>
<p>‘A poignant and imaginatively transgressive exploration of her parents’ marriage, a war time love match between Southern Italy and upper class England … Evocative’<br /><strong>Margaret Drabble</strong></p>
<p>‘High-risk and multidimensional … Warner brings to these pages a lifetime of thinking about stories and the ways in which they shape our lives’<br /><strong>Literary Review</strong></p>
<p>‘This is a wonderful rich, partly mythical memoir that sifts through the past to connect a family’s secrets to the deep-rooted colonial assumptions that still resonate in a post-Brexit Britain … never dull … Eloquent and heartbreaking’<br /><strong>TLS</strong></p>
<p>‘Poignant and mythical’<br /><strong>New Statesman</strong></p>
<p>‘The most intriguing memoir … Marina Warner’s subtle, exotic and angry account of her parents’ marriage’<br /><strong>Roy Foster, TLS, Books of the Year</strong></p>
<p>‘Warner is such a skilful and imaginative writer that much of …the book reads like lived experience … the happiest of concoctions, a mix of fiction and fact, observation and speculation …This brave, painful, dazzling memoir is riveting’<br /><strong>Spectator</strong></p>