A Fucked Up Life in Books

A Fucked Up Life in Books
Литагент HarperCollins

The most fucked up memoir you’ll ever read.A foul-mouthed memoir about a dysfunctional life.Each chapter recounts a key moment in the author’s life through the books she was reading at the time including:• Howard’s End, the only text she had read whilst engaging in sexual intercourse.• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, which she had in her bag while on holiday in Tangier when a market trader offered her to buy her from her mother for 30 camels.• Angela’s Ashes, her chosen reading material during her breast reduction surgery.• Wild Swans, the book she read the day she decided to have nothing more to do with her mother.It is funny, it is shocking, it is heartbreaking, it is very rude and it is totally unforgettable.

A FUCKED UP LIFE IN BOOKS

Anonymous

To Boy, love from Stumpy

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u43d9bc2b-1c3f-5f65-99aa-58a0f4015181)

Dedication (#u96b17241-245a-50dc-bd94-bfc21a59ec27)

Introduction (#u16113124-7590-58f6-95c0-5fcc6b94bcd4)

Childhood and school (#ud71f58f0-b5ca-530a-83e7-a74bc0530023)

Owl at Home (#u8ccfe76a-42ff-5650-93a3-9f152ec55785)

Mr Meddle’s Muddles (#u274d71f1-3a26-5e7d-a15d-7177ec38e782)

Burglar Bill (#u51d9e34f-4629-560f-ac4a-95d8f313369a)

Thelwell’s Riding Academy (#udcaef283-4acc-532f-96e8-654f854297a3)

Flight of Dragons (#u32868ef6-e2a0-5d91-a4a7-6c7a8ea5f610)

Goosebumps (#u33afa6e3-1fbd-5b85-843a-9ff0f8a4df2f)

Grimms’ Fairytales (#u8c48ffa0-b0c9-5942-95b9-400d53e0f09d)

The Silver Brumby (#u6d1fe53b-0675-5c38-87de-3fc9c849191e)

The Diary of Adrian Mole (#ue200bbb0-7af8-508a-9747-220e21867ce4)

Angela’s Ashes (#u26ada626-a551-5b0e-b164-0d5d27fc6f2e)

Stark (#ua77c89ba-297d-5577-af3b-55b598b28e1a)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (#u0366c55f-583b-5e20-8191-6b3dce86ed2e)

Birdsong (#u4886f4c2-eea1-5a43-8265-53fa046d31c4)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (#litres_trial_promo)

Wizard’s First Rule (#litres_trial_promo)

Liverpool Daisy (#litres_trial_promo)

Towards Tomorrow (#litres_trial_promo)

Teenage years and university (#litres_trial_promo)

Beloved (#litres_trial_promo)

A Game of You (#litres_trial_promo)

The Princess Bride (#litres_trial_promo)

Howards End (#litres_trial_promo)

Stone of Tears (#litres_trial_promo)

Wild Swans (#litres_trial_promo)

The Dice Man (#litres_trial_promo)

The Lord of the Rings (#litres_trial_promo)

Trainspotting (#litres_trial_promo)

Lolita (#litres_trial_promo)

Smoke and Mirrors (#litres_trial_promo)

The Da Vinci Code (#litres_trial_promo)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (#litres_trial_promo)

Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (#litres_trial_promo)

Confessor (#litres_trial_promo)

Guards! Guards! (#litres_trial_promo)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

A proper grown-up (#litres_trial_promo)

A Prayer for Owen Meany (#litres_trial_promo)

A Hell on Earth (#litres_trial_promo)

The Eye of the World (#litres_trial_promo)

A Wild Sheep Chase (#litres_trial_promo)