My Good Bright Wolf

My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir: Signed Edition

Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Literary Biography & Memoir
Hardback Published on: 29/08/2024
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Synopsis

From one of Britain's best contemporary novelists, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.

In the household of Sarah Moss's childhood she learnt that the female body and mind were battlegrounds. 1970s austerity and second-wave feminism came together: she must keep herself slim but never be vain, she must be intelligent but never angry, she must be able to cook and sew and make do and mend, but know those skills were frivolous. Clever girls should be ambitious but women must restrain themselves. Women had to stay small.

Years later, her self-control had become dangerous, and Sarah found herself in A&E, forced to reckon with all that she had denied her hard-working body and furiously turning mind.

My Good Bright Wolf navigates contested memories of girlhood, the chorus of relentless and controlling voices that dogged Sarah’s every thought, and the writing and books in which she could run free. Beautiful, audacious, moving and very funny, this memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns on itself, and then finds a way out.

  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 2928377275778
  • Number of pages: 320
  • Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm

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My Good Bright Wolf
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir
An extraordinarily powerful and moving read. This memoir by Sarah Moss was compelling from start to finish. The author is the first to admit that she ha... READ MORE
Big Bertha
My Good Bright Wolf
Compulsive reading
I don’t often read memoirs but I enjoyed Sarah Moss’s novel Summerwater a few years ago so was curious to learn more about her. I found it compulsive and f... READ MORE
Anne O'Connell
My Good Bright Wolf
Raw, but beautifully compelling
As faultlessly crafted as the author’s novels, this truly is an artfully, insightfully and relatable examined life. Not at all what I imagined, but so much... READ MORE
Small Adventurist
My Good Bright Wolf
A gripping memoir
'My Good Bright Wolf', by Sarah Moss, is a gripping memoir told in the second person narrative. I've been a fan of her fiction for years and she quickly b... READ MORE
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