Description:
A book decades ahead of its time, And So Did I established a new model for the memoir, one built from moments of intense observation, candid self-reflection, courageous honesty, and irrepressible humor.
Brief description: Catherine Taylor is a writer, critic, and editor. Formerly publisher at The Folio Society and deputy director of English PEN, she won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize for The Stirrings, her memoir of growing up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in the 1970s and 1980s.
Review Quotes:
'It is difficult to put this book into any category except that it is one of those friendly books that should be on one's bedside table, where it will scare away into serenity the bogeys that sometimes come in the lonely hours.' - Leonora Eyles, Times Literary Supplement
'It is delightful. Not an autobiography, not quite a journal, it combines in a most original way the qualities of both.' - G.W. Stonier, New Statesman