Review

Marina Warner wanted to write about parents through fiction. Instead, she used objects to tell their real story.

By Colin Steele
August 14 2021 - 12:00am
British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer Marina Warner. Picture: Getty Images
British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer Marina Warner. Picture: Getty Images
  • Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir, by Marina Warner. HarperCollins, $32.99.

Dame Marina Warner has written that her stories often "come from the past but speak to the present". Inventory of a Life Mislaid, which she terms an "unreliable memoir", telling the story of her parents and her early life, certainly falls into that category.

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