Lulah Ellender reads exclusively from her new book ‘Elisabeth’s Lists’, a vivid memoir and a moving study of the familial threads that bind us. Lulah never knew her grandmother Elisabeth, but after she was handed a hardback journal full of handwritten lists her curiosity grew and along with her diaries, Lulah pieced together who this woman truly was. Shopping lists, items to be packed for trips abroad, a running tally of hens eggs, were just a few of the mundane things that covered the paper, but Lulah discovered a life well lived filled with adventure and stark contrasts. It becomes clear that the lists were there to create order in a life in which Elisabeth had little control, and now Lulah looks back at these in search of meaning and solace as she sits with the knowledge that she is losing her own mother.

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