This book is incredible, I think it's one of the best books I've read this year! It looks at addiction and family relationships. I think it draws on the author's own experiences and it's such an honest and compelling read. It's stunning and is one that will really stay with me. I highly recommend it.

JM is always good at finding the horror in the familiar. Everyday life, she reminds us, exists at all times in close proximity to catastrophe. This story of the damage done to a comfortably middle-class family by narcissism and addiction is all the more compelling because the narrative voice is so plain, almost downbeat.

Julie Myerson's latest novel explores maternal love as the emotional foundation we both crave and fear. A howl of fury, as well as a moving love letter from a mother to a daughter, this is a book about damage, addiction, recovery and creativity. Painful to read in places I still found this a great read.

This was a really good read that dealt with hard hitting issues in an original way. IT was well written with a compelling storyline and well developed but flawed characters. An enjoyable read

Stunning book. Very difficult issues with every character who you come across, which makes it all the more challenging and, ultimately, heartbreaking. Familiar material about addiction told in a totally fresh way.

Nonfiction by Julie Myerson is about the narrator's relationships - with her drug addicted daughter, with her husband, with the man she is having an affair with, and with her difficult mother. The mother-daughter dynamics were the parts I found worked particularly well.