Tag: memoir
An Indigo Summer
The love and respect that Orrell expresses for her mother is wonderful to read. The author celebrates women like her mother who balance family life wi …
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Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death
[Katy Wix’s] positivity is convincing because it is thoroughly rooted in experience. Her writing in Delicacy is not painful or raw or brutal. It is ca …
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Voyager: Constellations of Memory
Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehe …
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And… A Memoir of My Mother: Negotiating Personal and Racial Identity in Wales
For Amy McCauley, this memoir about colonialism’s violence and its cultural and linguistic erasure, conveys the fragmentation caused by childhood trau …
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A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Elaine Margolin admires the acceptance of uncertainty that is at the heart of this travel-based memoir tracing a journey around Skagen Odde peninsula …
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A Ray of Darkness
Pippa Marland finds in this classic female autobiography, endorsed by current international epilepsy neurologists and representing startlingly contemp …
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Painting the Beauty Queens Orange: Women’s Lives in the 70s
Jemma L King, a former Miss Wales finalist, is enchanted to read a prose anthology which explores a quiet revolution of rural entrepreneurship, decima …
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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives
The Museum of Portable Sound will bring you into contact with an extensive collection of strange sonic entities. You can listen to an old MiniDisc pla …
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Planet Blues
It’s early winter. I’ve just been for a walk in a field. It’s part of the large estate that surrounds my home – a rented, retired 1830s farmhouse – an …
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The Listening Project
The Listening Project follows the life of a woman called Imogen, whose difficulties arise both from her hearing loss and from family tensions over her …
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