Posted on 23/11/24
A wonderful review for Gwyneth Lewis’s memoir in today’s Spectator.
Parents can shadow their children for a very long time. This compelling memoir, daring to voice its own truth, proves it can be done. Lewis is able to disentangle herself from her parents, banish mental illness and live – if not quite in the light, then on her own foundations. As she says, in a poem about her father – and, readers, believe it: ‘Despair can change.’
