Press Reviews

• Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen

• Cyril Connolly

  A model of selection and compression . . . Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf

• Kirkus Reviews

  While the title keys the mood here, furthered by a prose style as opalescent as a moonstone, the sub-title really defines this memoir which is 'sub-autobiographical' or interior

• English PEN

  Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes like power relationships within families, translated through the distorted lens of memory-writing that, like Lehmann's, moves the reader deeply

• Cyril Connolly

  A model of selection and compression ... combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf

• Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen