These Precious Days
- Author Ann Patchett
- Narrator Ann Patchett
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 11 hours and 14 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: writers, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary essays, Memoirs, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.
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What to expect
‘A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death’ Guardian
'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson
‘Profound and clever and funny and wise’ Meg Mason, author of Sorrow & Bliss
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An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House
'Any story that starts will also end.’ As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this as she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success, and what it all means.
Ranging from the personal – her portrait of the three men she called her fathers; how a chance encounter with Tom Hanks led to one of the most important friendships of her life; how to answer when someone asks why you don’t have children – to the sublime – the unexpected influence of Snoopy; the importance of knitting; the pleasure to be found in children’s books – each essay transforms the particular into the universal, letting us all see our own worlds anew.
Illuminating, penetrating, funny and generous, These Precious Days is joyful time spent in the company of one of our greatest living authors.
'Patchett's essays are both sharp and humane ... like a hugely enjoyable conversation with a particularly brilliant friend' Sadie Jones
Critics Review
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Ann Patchett is one of my favourite novelists … A pitch-perfect collection … She writes about family, writing, life, love, death and the peculiar experience of lockdown with such unshowy brilliance. She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity.
NIGELLA LAWSON -
Patchett’s essays are both sharp and humane … like a hugely enjoyable conversation with a particularly brilliant friend
SADIE JONES -
I am counting down to the release of These Precious Days. I adore everything she writes but especially her essays, which are always profound and clever, and funny and wise
MEG MASON -
All of life – friendship, love, loss, fertility, grief, gratitude, success and failure – is contained in These Precious Days
Harper's Bazaar -
Patchett’s gift is to write from intensely personal territory but to make her insights – about the importance of being generous in our relationships, or the fine balance between optimism and grief – seem universally relevant. As you read these meditative but warm-hearted essays, you begin to understand what matters most – not just to Patchett, but to you
Financial Times -
These Precious Days … is so full of heart that it practically throbs in your hands … The whole volume is a delight: a celebration of friendship and generosity and the flare of those unexpected coincidences which light a life
Spectator, Books of the Year
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