{"product_id":"forgotten-life-by-brian-aldiss","title":"'Forgotten Life' by Brian Aldiss","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"35\" data-end=\"602\"\u003eBest known as one of Britain's great science fiction writers, Brian Aldiss occasionally turned his attention toward more intimate terrain. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"35\" data-end=\"602\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"190\"\u003eForgotten Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about family memory, old age and the strange persistence of the past. When Clement and Sheila inherit a cache of wartime letters written decades earlier, they find that the correspondence slowly reconstructs a life otherwise slipping from memory, forcing the present to negotiate with histories that have never quite finished happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"1077\"\u003eAldiss writes with the same curiosity about time that marks his speculative fiction, but here the machinery is entirely human. Memory proves fragmentary, archival and unreliable; personal history survives in letters, anecdotes and silences rather than grand events. It is a thoughtful, understated novel about the ways ordinary lives become history almost without noticing, and about how families continue editing themselves long after the people involved have disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1104\" data-end=\"1181\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, first printing. Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1988. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and square with clean pages throughout. A very well-preserved first edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45813389131859,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-13T155423.174.png?v=1783923425","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/forgotten-life-by-brian-aldiss","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}