{"title":"Claire Tomalin","description":"CLAIRE TOMALIN worked in publishing and journalism for many years. She was literary editor first of the New Statesman and then the Sunday Times, before devoting herself to writing full time. She is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies including Thomas Hardy, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which was the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year. She lives in England with her husband, Michael Frayn.","products":[{"product_id":"charles-dickens-a-life-paperback","title":"Charles Dickens: A Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of \u003ci\u003eA Life of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose own difficult path to greatness inspired the creation of classic novels such as \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his sensational public appearances to the obsessive love affair that led him to betray, deceive, and break with those closest to him, \u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of the biographer's craft, a comedy that turns to tragedy in a story worthy of Dickens' own pen.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51113231155423,"sku":"9780143122050","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ydIE6esnGu9780143122050.webp?v=1786279916"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/claire-tomalin.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}