Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography, J.G. Ballard'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J. G. Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work. Beginning with his early childhood spent exploring the vibrant surroundings of