Writing From Family: Elizabeth Knox & Charlotte Grimshaw
Award-winning novelists Elizabeth Knox and Charlotte Grimshaw have each written searing memoirs. In Night, Ma Knox details a string of shocking calamities with frankness and humour. In The Mirror Book, Grimshaw looks beyond the public face of her family life to the messy reality. They chat with fellow memoirist Noelle McCarthy.
Read Philip Matthews' reportage on Night, Ma here.
Read the Spinoff's review of The Mirror Book here.
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Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Knox CNZM is the author of fourteen novels, three novellas, a book of essays, and a memoir. Elizabeth won the
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Charlotte Grimshaw
Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of eleven critically acclaimed books to date, encompassing novels, short stories and me
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Noelle McCarthy
Noelle McCarthy is an author, broadcaster and producer. Her latest memoir Stakes is an account of a life-long obsession
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