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Blake Butler
Rave The Telegraph (UK) Extraordinary and raw ... The triumph of his book lies in its compassion.
Fern Brady
Rave The Telegraph (UK) Punchy ... [Brady] brings the same unsparing wit to a memoir that calls out the bulls--t in every culture she’s experienced ... Brady’s at her sharpest on autistic women and sex.
Jonny Steinberg
Rave The Telegraph (UK) Excellent ... Steinberg suspects that the couple’s myths will only endure – but his thorough interrogation of their story should help readers reconcile themselves with the messier truth.
Geena Davis
Rave The Telegraph (UK) Marvelous ... This isn’t an angry book. It’s an endearing and inspiring account of one \'offbeat\' woman finding her own voice ... I’m often bored by the second half of celebrity memoirs, but Davis’s just keeps building momentum. It’s a real-life feel-good movie, in which the downtrodden heroine finds her power. She guards her privacy without ever getting pompous or dull.
VIV Albertine
Rave The Telegraph ...a brutally honest book about the blood, guts, sweat and tears that went into becoming a woman in the Seventies. You don’t need to be a fan of the Slits or even punk to be gripped from the off ... Most rock autobiographies are interesting mainly in the first half and get dull post-success, but Albertine’s just keeps getting better as the band breaks up and she throws herself into a career teaching aerobics (more sweaty, liberated women leaping around to music), then film.