THE AUTHOR AND publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:
New Island Books, Ireland, for extract from Are You Somebody? by
Nuala O’Faolain © 1996
Harper Collins UK for extract from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby © 1997
Theatre Communication Group for extract from Swimming to
Cambodia by Spalding Gray © 1985
Skye Rogers for extract from Drink Me published by Fourth Estate,
Australia © 2006
The Random House Group Ltd and The Curtis Brown Group Ltd,
London, for extract from Forever Today by Deborah Wearing © 2005, published by Doubleday
Hodder Headline Hachette Livre and Atlantic Books Ltd for extract from Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs © 2002
Harper Collins UK for extract from The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion © 2005
Random House Australia for extract from True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth © 2003
Random House UK for extract from In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, translated by CK Scott Moncrieff.
Thank you also to Sheridan Jobbins for extracts from her manuscript, ‘Run Baby, Run’ and Jenette McGrory for extracts from her manuscript,‘Train Crash’. Thank you, too, to all my memoir students, from whom I have learned so much.
Finally, I would also like to thank Annette Barlow, Christa Munns and Jo Jarrah, all of whom have looked after my words with such care.