Wifedom Mrs Orwells Invisible Life 1st Edition Anna Funder by Anna Funder instant download after payment.

“Simply, a masterpiece…Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full.” — Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of Horse

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At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations & household responsibilities were crushing her soul & taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, & George Orwell came to her rescue.

“I’ve always loved Orwell,” Funder writes, “his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, & who it works on.” So after rereading & savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life & work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, & it was a revelation.

Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, & her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why & how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War & the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife.

A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the 20th century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending & utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere.

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ANNA FUNDER is the author of Stasiland & All That I Am, & the novella The Girl with the Dogs. Stasiland, hailed as a ‘classic’, tells true stories of ordinary people who heroical