Finding Myself

Author: Toby Litt
Dear Friend, How would you like to come–this August–and stay, completely free, in a lovely seaside house I’ve rented? Good food and plenty of alcohol will also be provided, gratis. But (you knew there’d be a but) afterwards you must allow me to write up the events of the month in a semi-fictionalised form. (In other words: you promise not to sue.)At the end of the book,….Read More
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