Good Girls by Hadley Freeman @4thEstateBooks @HadleyFreeman #GoodGirls #HadleyFreeman #Memoir #Anorexia #TheClqrt #BookReview

4th Estate Books 2nd March 2023 Book Description 'For a long time, I told no one about my past, because I worried they'd see the madness I tried so hard to hide. But anorexia leaves scars, from the illness itself and the treatment of it, which left me traumatised, institutionalised and in a state of…

Unspoken by Guvna B @GuvnaB @HarpersInspire #GuvnaB #leavenothingunspoken #Memoir #NonFiction #TheClqrt #BookReview

Harper Inspire February 2021 Book Description Men are brave. Men are bold. Men are fearless and strong. Growing up on a council estate in East London, rapper Guvna B thinks he knows what it means to be a man. But when a personal tragedy sends him reeling, he's forced to think again. Dealing with grief…

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi @vintagebooks #WhenBreathBecomesAir #PaulKalanithi #Memoir #NonFiction #TheClqrt #BookReview #BookBlog #NonFictionNovember

Vintage Books 2016 Book Description At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from…

Breakfast at Bronzefield by Sophie Campbell @SophieCBooks #BreakfastatBronzfield #TheClqrt #Memoir #OwnVoices #Nonfiction #BookReview #BookBlog

Sophie Campbell Books June 2020 Book Description HMP Bronzefield, the UK's largest women's prison: notorious for bent screws and drugs. But what's the truth behind the headlines? Forced into signing an NDA when she arrived there on remand, former public schoolgirl Sophie risked extra time on her sentence by documenting her experiences on life inside.…

Is There Still Sex In The City by Candace Bushnell @CandaceBushnell @LittleBrownUK #IsThereStillSexInTheCity #SexInTheCity #CandaceBushnell #NonFiction #BookReview

8th August 2019 Little Brown Book Description Candace Bushnell gets personal in her new memoir - an investigation into what happens when a woman of a certain age (OK, lets call it 'middle') finds herself not-so-young, free and single in the city. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known…

Demi Moore Inside Out – A Memoir by Demi Moore @justdemi @4thEstateBooks #DemiMoore #Autobiography #BookReview #NonFictionNovember

4th Estate Books 24th September 2019 Book Description For decades Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity.  From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight - or the headlines. Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, however, she  was always outrunning her past, just…

The Little Girl on the Ice Floe – a memoir by Adelaide Bon @QuercusBooks @katjaellis_ #TheLittleGirlOnTheIceFloe

MacLehose Press 18th April 2019 (Hardback) Book Description Adelaide Bon grew up in a wealthy neighbourhood in Paris, with a loving family, lots of friends and seemingly limitless opportunity ahead of her.  But one sunny afternoon, when she was nine years old, a stranger followed her home and raped her in the stairwell of her…

Another Planet – A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn @tracey_thorn @emmafinnigan @canongatebooks #TraceyThorn #BookReview #AnotherPlanetATeenagerinSurbubia

Canongate Books 7th February 2019 Book Description 'In the heart of the Green Belt nothing seemed to move.  Stranded in the past, it wrestled with the present, and hated the future.  And there I was, stuck with it...' In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn's teenage life was forged from what failed to happen.  Her…

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay @amateuradam @picadorbooks @CurtisBrown #Thisisgoingtohurt #AdamKay #BookReview

Picador - September 2017 Book Description 97-hour weeks.  Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's diaries provide a no-holds-barred account of his…

I Am, I Am, I Am By Maggie O’Farrell @TinderPress @PublicityBooks #Memoir # NonFiction #BookReview

Tinder Press 2017 Book Description A memoir with a difference, I AM, I AM, I AM is novelist Maggie O'Farrell's unforgettable account of a life in near-death experiences.  A childhood illness she was not expected to survive.  A terrifying encounter on a remote path.  A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital.  Insightful, inspirational, intelligent, it…