Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn

The interview by the Guardian writer Stephen Moss of Edward St Aubyn is revelling and obfuscating at the same time and this perfectly ecapsulates the book.  Edward writes about his abusive, upper class childhood,where his father rapes him and continues to abuse him from the age of 5 to 8.  It's a hard book to read,  where a child scared by his treatment moves to teenage years and the casual use of drugs to hide the scared and disturbed child beneath the drug abuse to enable him to forget. 

Words used to discribe it:  cutting wit, explosive, over rated, authentic, characterless, horrendous, corrosive,

Marks out of 10:  between 6 - 10 so highly scored

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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

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18th April