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What an amazing memoir. I loved this

Roy has a complicated relationship with especially her mother, but also her father. A lot of the memoir focuses on this through the ages.

But she also spent time on her school years, film making career and relationships, and as a book lover how much winning the Booker Prize back in 1997 changed her life for ever.

I know it‘s early but I hope to this on next year‘s Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction.

Here‘s my #wpnf list, in some kind of order. I‘ve read them all, nearly! (1/3 of Wild Thing and 1/4 of Tracker).

I have a definite top 5, the top line, shown in order. Then, any of the second row could be book 6, again these are in approx order but I‘m still a bit torn between PR and Agent Zo.

Much as I loved Neneh‘s book, I don‘t think it should make the shortlist - it‘s a fairly ‘standard‘ memoir, not like Babylon last year. ⬇️

I read this hoping it might make the #WPNF list, unfortunately it didn't which is a bummer because this is very good.
Crampton takes on a lot in this book about hypochondria - history, popularity, medically how is the illness treated and seen throughout history into the present. She has laid the book out very well moving back and forth through time. Bringing in everyone from King Charles VI, Jane Austen, to Elizabeth Holmes (as a quack) 👇