Anthony Sattin

Marina Warner becomes her mother’s ‘shabti’

Through carefully chosen inherited objects, Warner imaginatively reconstructs her parents’ marriage and bears witness to her mother’s difficulties

Dame Marina Warner at the Annual Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2016. Credit: Getty Images
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  • Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

    Marina Warner

    William Collins, pp. 432, £16

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