One of the most electrifying memoirists of her generation ... A superb volume of autobiographical fragments

Daily Telegraph

One of the most inventive writers of her generation

Independent

She is savagely good company

Daily Telegraph

Diski is one of the language's great, if under-appreciated, stylists

Guardian

The appeal of Diski's essays was the appeal of Diski herself … brilliant, irritable, mordant, and humane

Paris Review