Almost There by Nuala O'Faolain Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Almost There
Book Review: Passionate and excruciating
Summary: 4 Stars
Nuala O'Faolain is so vivacious, so funny and filled with life, so honest in her writing that I find I can't put her books down, and yet I find I'm either laughing or cringing, one or the other, depending on the page or the paragraph. I swing violently from pro to con as I read anything she's written; in this memoir, she spends so much time celebrating (it sounds often like bragging) about the success of her last memoir, and then confesses, horribly, about the dark side of her feelings against the young daughter of the man she's in love with. But she is also insightful and brilliantly observant and filled with hope. I don't think I've ever been so compelled by a writer and at the same time, repulsed. It's her narcissism that makes her books so compulsively readable, combined with genuinely gorgeous writing. I can't wait for the next one, and I'll laugh and cringe some more.