![]() ![]() The author of the diaries, known only as 'I,' is the tragicomic patron saint of everyone who feels their life should have been more successful. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation.Ī Life Discarded is a true, shocking, poignant, often hilarious story of an ordinary life. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. ![]() ![]() Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. In 2001, 148 tattered and mold-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Alexander Masters, the bestselling author of Stuart: A Life Backwards, asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap ![]()
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