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'[A] glitteringly painful novel so steady and clear in its analysis of addiction creativity and the factors that determine female and familial identity' Rachel Cusk

Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. Meanwhile the mother - a novelist - attempts to understand her uneasy unresolved relationship with her own mother.

Weaving between childhoods past and present as well as a current narrative laced with temptation and betrayal this is the delicate journey of a mother daughter wife and author struggling to make sense of her world.

But can a writer ever be trusted with the truth of her own story?

Clear-eyed self-lacerating and at times frighteningly direct 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.