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Richard It is the most frank, candid and brutally honest memoir possible. It transcends memoir to the point that it reads like fiction, In some respects it is…moreIt is the most frank, candid and brutally honest memoir possible. It transcends memoir to the point that it reads like fiction, In some respects it is the most brilliantly written fiction, because the characters are hyper-real, and yet they all existed as people. Through Leduc's perception the banal is rendered fantastic, the absurd commonplace. It is a legitimisation in prose of the deepest despair and the heights of ecstasy, with a callous disregard for what the reader may feel or desire. She damns and canonises herself at the same time. It is egoless and at the same time self-obsessed, mortifying and uplifting, gratuitous and wholly justified, brutish and sophisticated. Unlike anything else you will ever read.(less)

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