This is the most riveting memoir you will read this year. It is short, pithy, fast-paced, comic and tragic by turns. Lynn Barber, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who has terrorised celebrity interviewees and labelled them ‘mad’, ‘paranoid’, and ‘seriously screwed-up’, has looked into the mirror and dissected, unsparingly, her own peculiar life. It’s every bit as good as Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood, a comparable tale of a writer emerging from a potentially catastrophic episode in her teenage years.

Jul 2009

Playing God

Street Smug

Portrait of the Author

Queen of the Desert

His Family & Other Animals

Weathering the Dorm

Line Management

Down Memory Lane

Mayfair Lady

‘Crisp as a Celery Stick’

Keeping Up with the Burne-Joneses

Still Lighting Up

In Restaurants, Other Diners Applauded When He Left

The Voice of Everywoman

Long Wavering Radio

Cherchez Les Femmes

Ladies on Longwave

Not Just A Pretty Face

Et Alors?

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