Misadventures
- 7 May 2020
- 9781786893987
- £9.99
- 256 pp
- 129×198mm
- 26 Nov 2009
- 9781847677426
- £7.99
- 256 pp
In a few words
The extraordinary memoir of an ordinary woman’s life
In a few words
The extraordinary memoir of an ordinary woman’s life
This is the nicest, wisest and funniest book I have read for ages. I sat up till 1.30am and read it all the way through, giggling happily
Helen Fielding, Author Of Bridget Jones' Diary
Outlandishly banal . . . Strangely gripping . . . Smith wins you over’
This is the nicest, wisest and funniest book I have read for ages. I sat up till 1.30am and read it all the way through, giggling happily
Helen Fielding, Author Of Bridget Jones' Diary
Outlandishly banal . . . Strangely gripping . . . Smith wins you over’
More about
the book
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman’s life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith’s deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
More about
the book
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman’s life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith’s deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
What was banal becomes weirdly compelling - a life of utter normality (whatever that means) drawn in the way literature seldom, if ever, describes it: funny, poignant, tragic and, in the end, curiously hopeful
The Diary of a Nobody for the twenty-first century
A strange, unsettling and oddly moving read . . . it gives a voice to one ordinary woman’s life, of the kind rarely commemorated in autobiographical writing
it's a curiously refreshing twist on the memoir
What was banal becomes weirdly compelling - a life of utter normality (whatever that means) drawn in the way literature seldom, if ever, describes it: funny, poignant, tragic and, in the end, curiously hopeful
The Diary of a Nobody for the twenty-first century
A strange, unsettling and oddly moving read . . . it gives a voice to one ordinary woman’s life, of the kind rarely commemorated in autobiographical writing
it's a curiously refreshing twist on the memoir
