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Lyndall Gordon biography to Little, Brown

24.02.12 | Charlotte Williams

Little, Brown has acquired a memoir by biographer Lyndall Gordon, whose previous subjects have included Emily Dickinson, T S Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Virago publisher Lennie Goodings bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Isobel Dixon of Blake Friedmann. Gordon grew up in South Africa and left her mother and her home to live in America and Britain.

The book will be called Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter, and will explore the relationship between the pair as well as how the pull of her earlier years constantly drew Gordon back to the life she left behind. It will be published in 2014, with plans to reissue Lyndall's biographies of T S Eliot and Henry James before then.

Goodings said: "It's a moving and universal story, a wonderfully layered memoir about the expectations of love and duty between mother and daughter."

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