"A piercing, challenging, and incredibly intimate memoir which envelops you in its folds as it revisits memories, ideas of femininity, control, and imagination."
Hitting like a bolt of lightening, this powerful and provocative memoir is one I will be recommending far and wide. Although incredibly personal, it will likely strike an emotional chord with many as it wanders the corridors of memories and examines the traps that lie within. Sarah Moss writes novels, they often walk into darkness and her Ghost Wall which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019 is one that will forever stay with me.
As soon as I saw she had written a memoir I was intrigued but had no idea as to the journey I would follow. I absolutely love how she has written this, worlds almost splatter across the page declaring meaning and although questioning memory, it feels like truth. She validates feelings, allows them freedom to explore and they kept me company as I read.
She writes with eloquence, wit, and thoughtfulness as she touches on childhood, relationships, anorexia, and her thoughts and imagination. There are an abundance of insights and slices of inspiration to take away with you and I just had to choose this as not only a Liz Pick of the Month but also a LoverReading Star Book.
My Good Bright Wolf is rather special, it gives, it inspires, it challenges. Highly recommended.
A memoir about thinking and reading, eating and denying your body food, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.
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A memoir about thinking and reading, eating and denying your body food, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.In the household of Sarah Moss's childhood she learnt that the female body and mind were battlegrounds. 1970s austerity and second-wave feminism came together: she must keep herself slim but never be vain, she must be intelligent but never angry, she must be able to cook and sew and make do and mend, but know those skills were frivolous. Clever girls should be ambitious but women must restrain themselves.
My Good Bright Wolf features in the following genres: Book Club Recommendations, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Biographies & Autobiographies, Mind, body, spirit, Self Help and Personal Development, Memoirs, Autobiography: writers, Coping with / advice about eating disorders, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Literature: history and criticism, Memoirs, Relating to childhood, Eating disorders and therapy
Paperback, Hardback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
My Good Bright Wolf was written by Sarah Moss and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
My Good Bright Wolf has 304 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
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