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Richard E. Grant

Happy Place

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How to Write a Memoir of a Trauma

"I cried my eyes out of the end and I never cry at books" "It's hilarious it's eye-opening it's heart-wrenching at times" "To face it and look at it as awful as that can be is how you then start to move with it rather than get stuck" 'The reader gets to share what we were going through. It was a way of trying to control it or make sense of what was going on so that what you get in the book is not sort of jumping around' "[My wife] got very prickly or very tired or all those things that you don't that's not varnished over," she said.

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