I’ve always wanted to write things that feel brave. That make people slightly uncomfortable. I like reading work that makes me slightly uncomfortable. That’s why I write. I want to be on the edge of what is OK. I don’t want to hurt anybody I love, of course not. But I need to be as honest as I possibly can.
― Julie Myerson, Interview, The Guardian
What booksellers are saying about Nonfiction
- Beautiful and heartbreaking, this is a wound of a novel. The double helix of truth and fiction are the building block of this painful narrative, we are given glimpses of events that seem more like feeling than memory, more dream than reality. Shockingly raw and bravely rendered, I was staggered after finishing this.
― Aimee Keeble from Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina | Buy from Main Street Books
- Myerson cuts to the heart of a flawed family dynamic by way of a deflated mother who is incapable of supporting her daughter who struggles with addiction. The absence of names makes this story all-too easy to find yourself in; the rawness and realness of it affirms its clever name. It’s gutting to read, but impossible to ignore once you’ve started.
― Isabel Agajanian from Oxford Exchange Tampa, Florida | Buy from Oxford Exchange
About Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Something Might Happen and The Stopped Heart, and three works of nonfiction, including Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House and The Lost Child. As a critic and columnist, she has written for many newspapers including The Guardian, the FT, Harper’s Bazaar and the New York Times, and she was a regular guest on BBC TV’s Newsnight Review. She lives in London with her family.
