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I have not yet steeled myself to read Frank McCourt's 'Angelas Ashes.' Too sad.

A powerful biography is Lorna Sage's 'Bad Blood.' 'An elegaic demolition of the idealised family.'

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Another, delightful biography, has me screaming with laughter till it hurts every time I read it...also crying, sometimes, 'A Child In The Forest,' by Winifred Foley. The Forest is the Forest of Dean between the wars, her beloved father was a coal miner. Gets me every time.

The author who put the Forest of Dean on the literary map.

I said once, to a publisher that I was going to write True Stories of A Tarot Reader. His eyes snapped. He leaned forward. 'Is it written yet? he said.

Then there's this article, by John Crace, How To Write A Misery Memoir.

Your memoir recommendations?
 
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