The latest memoir by the prize-winning author of A Lie About My Father
Amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation, John Burnside has just been awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous other awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Petrarca Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. His most recent books are The Music of Time- Poetry in the Twentieth Century and Aurochs and Auks- Essays on Mortality and Extinction. He is a professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.
A marvellously meandering, digressive study of the nature of love…
Burnside has a lovely garrulousness that is distinctively his own…
Exact and enthralling.
*Guardian*
[An] indirect, peculiar, consuming memoir… Full of wonders.
*Observer*
A wise and wryly glum autobiography written in a highly rewarding,
pared-back style.
*Sunday Times*
Captivating and unsettling… A work of scalding honesty.
*Financial Times*
Intoxicating… Remarkable… A long-player that resonates long after
the stylus has lifted.
*Glasgow Sunday Herald*
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