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Title: is she really honest?
Review: Nuala writes on about the poverty of her life a la Frank Mccourt, yet her father had a solidly middle class profession as a news reporter. In fact, she admits that another writer "outs" her as quite middle class, and others refer to her family as "bohemian," not poor. She went to a boarding school-hardly a solution for a truly impoverished family. Her memoir would have been more poweful had she focused on what appears to be the more central problem in her family - alchoholism, and the ensuing emotional impoverishment that is the inevitable result. If I were to right a memoir as a 53 year old woman, I can't imagine that my sexual escapades would continue to be such a central part of my lifestory. I thought her continuing preoccupation with men and sex was immature, odd, or somehow disfunctional. Overall, she comes across as a very depressed woman. Very sad personal story.
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