Full name: Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer

Author: Daphne Du Maurier Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads

Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932, du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her marriage. Often painfully honest, she recounts her difficult relationship with her father, her education in Paris, her early love affairs, her antipathy towards London life, and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting self-portrait is of a complex, utterly captivating young woman. Similar books: Then Again by Diane Keaton In Pieces by Sally Field My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck An Open Book by Monica Dickens Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall Looking Back by Lois Lowry Extreme by Sharon Osbourne When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls