This was my first introduction to Jeanette Winterston and memoirs as a genre and this was really a transformative experience for me. Winterston’s writing is absolutely amazing, it sucked me in instantly and the lyrical, flowing prose mixed with the author’s deep delve into their history and their psyche kinda swept me away in the force of it’s flow. Getting to know her through the textures of her past, from her very birth to her current life was an intense journey, and I feel like what she portrayed felt very real and intense through the pages, even though she said she writes herself through fiction. The intertextuality, references to other literature and how literature shaped her, her class and England was so skillfully and beautifully implemented as well. Tens across the board.