Biography
REVIEWS
‘Nobody writes like Sally Bayley’ – Lemn Sissay
‘Sally Bayley’s second volume of memoir is as original and moving as the first. Shakespeare’s characters walk with a family enacting their own tragedies and comedies as they struggle with poverty and illness. Bayley’s bright, tight, sentences and tender wit create a truly child-like perspective which allows us to understand great pain. To be read by all educationalists’ – Kate Clanchy, Orwell Prize-winning author of Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
‘Very powerful and moving … With many insights into aspects of the way we live now’ – Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a Time
‘Sally Bayley’s new book dances along the intersections of memoir, family history, literary criticism and autofiction … Her writing is always fluid, playful, surprising and challenging. Ultimately, this is a book about healing, about how the characters of literature can help us re imagine and redeem the challenging people we encounter in our own lives’ – Alice Jolly, author of Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, runner-up of the Rathbones Folio Award 2019
