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Leah McLaren is an award-winning author and journalist. Her two novels, The Continuity Girl (2007) and A Better Man (2015) have been published in half a dozen countries and translated into several languages. Leah began her career as a columnist and feature writer for The Globe and Mail where she spent a decade on staff and was posted to the London bureau. She then spent ten years as the London-based Europe correspondent for Maclean's. Her long-form investigative work and essays have been published around the world in outlets including The Guardian, The Observer Magazine, The Spectator, The Sunday Times Style Magazine, The Toronto Star, Toronto Life and elsewhere. She's been nominated for multiple National Newspaper Awards and National Magazine Awards and won gold medals in the long features category. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and adapted to film, television and radio. Leah was born and raised in Toronto and rural Ontario. Today she lives in North West London with her husband, three boys and Thomas Cromwell, a ruthless tabby ratter.
A work of probing insight and undaunted compassion; one that's fearlessly engrossing, frequently funny and sometimes plain hair-raising -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer * It's hard not to find yourself rooting for both parties in this untamed, yearning story of imperfect mother-daughter love * The Guardian * Raw and beautiful-I was riveted all the way through. -- ANNIE MACMANUS, author of Mother Mother If Edward St. Aubyn were to write an episode of Euphoria, it might come close to Leah McLaren's astonishing memoir. Ecstatically wild and weirdly fun, this book has me praying that it is the first installment of a series--and that I'll be seeing more of this latchkey kid and her mother, both of whom are brilliantly flawed, and make cardboard cutouts out of the rest of us. McLaren has written a poignant and brave modern gothic. I am blown away, madly in love. -- LAUREN MECHLING, author of How Could She Where You End and I Begin is a burningly true and gorgeously written memoir of a complex mother and daughter relationship. At its heart, this is a freshly told story by a great writer about an under-parented generation, where children were free to realize themselves, but also perhaps to become lost in the process. You're in good hands with Leah as she guides you through the pain and joy of her unfettered childhood. -- CATHRIN BRADBURY, author of The Bright Side Mordant, clear-eyed, loving, devastating. Richly evocative, propulsive, and so well written-her prose sparkles like sunshine over deep water. -- AIDA EDEMARIAM, author of The Wife’s Tale
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