Mary-Rose MacColl memoir about sexual abuse

A DECADE or so ago, misery memoirs were all the rage. The worse your childhood, the better your book sold. Sometimes – such as in the case of American James Frey’s 2003 fake life story, A Million Little Pieces – you even made bad stuff up in order to get more readers. But Mary-Rose MacColl’s extraordinary new book ­rewrites the misery memoir. You couldn’t make it up – being groomed by your (female) high-school teacher so you could end up three-in-a-bed with her husband, eventually ending up pregnant – but nor could you write so beautifully and powerfully and heartbreak­ingly unless you were a writer prepared to put everything on the line.

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