Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize * Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Award
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award * Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction * Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by New Yorker, Washington Post, Financial Times, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Affairs, Public Books, Sunday Times
In a memoir that is by turns "bitingly, if darkly, funny ... and truly profound"...




























