being shortlisted for the National Book Awards. In 2019, The New York Times named the memoir in its The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years article. Her second memoir To Throw Away Unopened was published by Faber and Faber in May 2018. The book describes the complex relationship between Albertine and her mother. The title is taken from a note pinned to a bag left behind by her mother after her death. Albertine admits she viewed this as "a provocation", and felt that her mother expected her to look inside: The contents turned out to be personal diaries, which Albertine read in full, and ultimately incorporated into her own memoir. Personal life Albertine married in 1995, and gave birth to a daughter, Vida, in 1999. After seventeen years of marriage, the pair divorced. Albertine currently lives in Hackney, London. Albertine is on the autism spectrum. Discography As a solo artist The Vermillion Border (2012) with The Slits Cut (1979) Bootleg Retrospective (1980) Return of the Giant Slits (1981) Bibliography Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (2014) To Throw Away Unopened (2018) References External links 1954 births Living people British punk rock musicians English women singer-songwriters English women guitarists English guitarists English memoirists English television directors Women new wave singers Musicians from London Musicians from Sydney People on the autism spectrum Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts The Slits members British women memoirists Australian emigrants to England English people of Swiss descent English people of French descent British people of Corsican descent Australian people of Swiss descent Australian people of French descent British women television directors Women punk rock singers Women in punk