LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
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.
Liz Robinson
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My Good Bright Wolf Synopsis
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. Women had to stay small.
Years later, her self-control had become dangerous, and Sarah found herself in A&E. The return of her teenage anorexia had become a medical emergency, forcing her to reckon with all that she had denied her hard-working body and furiously turning mind.
My Good Bright Wolf navigates contested memories of girlhood, the chorus of relentless and controlling voices that dogged Sarah's every thought, and the writing and books in which she could run free. Beautiful, audacious, moving and very funny, this memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns on itself, and then finds a way out.
From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir like no other.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781035035816 |
| Publication date: |
29th August 2024 |
| Author: |
Sarah Moss |
| Publisher: |
Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
208 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Biographies & Autobiographies
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Press Reviews
Sarah Moss Press Reviews
'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelist's can be. - The Times
'Compulsive and compelling' - Emilie Pine
'Devastating, funny and full of brilliant insights . . . a brave and important book.' - Melissa Harrison
'Confronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be.' - Jan Carson
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About Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is a senior Lecturer in Literature and Place at the Cornwall Campus of Exeter University. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykavik. She co-edits, with Nicola Humble, the Food series at Manchester University Press. Night Waking is her second novel.
Author photo © Simon Burt
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