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"funny and unsentimental..."

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"lively, intimate and packed with clever connections..."

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"... beautifully descriptive, if occasionally clumsy..."

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"James deftly blends the older Catherine’s voice with the naive young Catherine of her memory..."

"her prose has a richness that adds extra depth to a familiar story..."

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"no account of such people as these can fail to grip..."

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" a gritty tale of life in a North Dakota oilfield..."

"Imagine a Wagner opera without the music – seven hours of dense verbal repetition, lacking the benefit of an oceanic orchestra and exultant singing voices..."

"She marshals her facts and impressions with energy and assiduity...."

"In many ways it feels as if Cannibal has paved the way for itself..."

"a crisply told story of surviving abuse..."

"(an) excellent, occasionally disturbing and very original book..."

"a superbly detailed account of how the internal organs of British power function..."

"The gifted writer summons the eclectic travels of Albrecht Dürer with captivating passion, poignancy, pure wonder and a personal twist..."

"commemorates a privileged world long since vanished..."

"The between-the-wars diaries of the romping, social-climbing MP Henry Channon make for a irresistible, saucy read..."

"Holmesian sleuthing meets a case of racist injustice..."

"wry insights from medicine’s grumpy old man..."

"Essays spanning 1968 to 2000, written in perfectly weighted prose, cohere into a fine reflection on the business and art of writing..."

"The honesty and clarity of the writing in this account elevates what could have been a ‘misery memoir’ into something moving and joyous..."

"Recounting complex scientific tales as if he were a storyteller around a fire..."

"Inventive take on a remarkable life..."

"... an extremely moving, sometimes baggy book..."

"(a) rollicking, rambunctious memoir..."

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"tightly packed with information and sprinkled with wry anecdotes..."

"eerie yet brilliant..."

"Sampson is not too fastidious to deprive herself – or us – of the schlockier pleasures of biographical speculation..."

"compelling..."

" a warm-hearted and eye-opening memoir..."

" a chronicle of quiet survivals of the “common fate”..."

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