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Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view of the world.
"An astonishing tale, well-structured and punchily told."
"Impossible not to read in one sitting."
"A memoir you read with the same breathlessness as you read the most gripping of novels."
"What would you do if you began to suspect the events of your childhood didn't happen as you remembered them? In this evocative memoir, Tracy King confronts the stories we all tell ourselves in order to live."
"Raw and unflinching."
"Tracy King's memoir is heartbreaking and hopeful... An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness."
"A brilliant writer."
"A stirring account of one woman’s staggering climb through grief to independence and a page-turner to boot, King is an exciting, brave new voice in memoir."
Tracy King is a writer, producer, and science communicator based in England. She contributes to media on subjects ranging from science and technology to politics and videogames, in outlets such as the Guardian, BBC, Telegraph, and New European.