Jean Lucey Pratt
Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 in Wembley, Middlesex and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire. She was a trainee architect, she was a publicist, she gardened, she took in lodgers, she read copiously, she wrote criticism, and in later years she ran a bookshop. But above all, she kept track of her life in the most lyrical of ways, from the age of 15 until just a few days before her death in 1986.
A Notable Woman
The extraordinary journals chronicling one ordinary woman’s life: a fascinating slice of British social history edited and introduced by Simon Garfield
“Throughout this wonderful book, Pratt demonstrates acute descriptive powers and a piercing intelligence. It’s in describing her loneliness that she forges the deepest communion with the reader”
Anita Sethi
The Guardian