Time to be in earnest a fragment of autobiography has an innovative structure james wrote a diary that spans from her 77th birthday to her 78th and used her day to day experiences as jumping off points to sometimes reflect on writing past eras of her life the modern era and crime. This item time to be in earnest a fragment of autobiography by p d james paperback 850 only 1 left in stock order soon ships from and sold by turtlerun. Written with exceptional grace this fragment of autobiography has already been received with . Time to be in earnest offers an intimate portrait of one of most accomplished women of our time here are vivid revealing accounts of her school days in cambridge in the 1920s and 30s her happy marriage and the tragedy of her husbands mental illness and the thrill of publishing her first novel cover her face in 1962