In Full View : Essays by Lily Brett

Here is the unsparing Brett candour full-on, equal parts self-scrutiny and self-mockery, her 'take' on life is what she has negotiated with it over roughly fifty years - an account as funny as her fans expect, and as blazingly intense.

Her collection of essays makes no false promises with its title.... here is the author, stripped bare, writing about her body, her food anxieties, ageing, sex, with the same spotlit intensity and comic timing as her fiction, only this is so much braver.