{"product_id":"single-journey-only-a-memoir","title":"Ursula Owen: Single Journey Only [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eUrsula Owen has been a significant figure in the worlds of literature and free expression since the 1970s. A founding director of Virago Press in 1974, she worked there with a committed team as the company rapidly developed an international reputation, repositioning and rediscovering women writers and, over two decades, transforming both the literary canon and the contemporary publishing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1990s, Owen became Cultural Policy Advisor to the Labour Party and Chief Executive of Index on Censorship. Yet behind these and other signal achievements lies the story of a refugee, a child who fled the Nazis, was educated at Putney High School, went up to Oxford, worked as a psychiatric social worker, travelled extensively, married and became a mother. In this compelling memoir, we discover an extraordinary life, with all its messiness, and meet a woman who's always fought for ideas against a background of the tumultuous conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Owen, Ursula","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48674617524563,"sku":"XV81784631871","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/owen-ursula-single-journey-only-a-memoir-xv81784631871-56092091711827.jpg?v=1728306320","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/single-journey-only-a-memoir","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}