A Nice Girl Like Me [Paperback]

`Written with the pacy swing of intelligent literate journalism ... fast and bizarre enough for topselling fiction, but there's the voyeur addition of knowing it's true'
-- Guardian

'A NICE GIRL LIKE ME is the most unflinching personal account of addiction that I have read. First published in 1984 it remains ageless, without an ounce of self pity about it. It serves as both autobiography, and documentary history of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's. Rosie Boycott is generous, brave, and hugely compelling' -- Sophie Dahl

'Beautiful and brutally honest. That perpetual, perplexing question echoes across the decades. What does it mean to be a woman? And how, exactly, do we go about being one?' -- Sally Brampton

'Rosie Boycott has broken several moulds in her life, and one of them was in writing A NICE GIRL LIKE ME, a beautiful, rigorous, and riveting memoir of her drinking years. It is a book written with the kind of honesty and the kind of openness that make you realise what good writing is all about. The book is a classic of the examined life, Boycott's search not only for sobriety but for her better self, and she takes the reader every step of the way on this very human, very powerful confrontation with imperfection. A NICE GIRL LIKE ME is
the world's best antidote to the empty narcissism of the celebrity memoir. The book will mean a great deal to anyone who ever wished they could start again -- which means everyone' -- Andrew O'Hagan

'The book tells of a bright, tough, ambitious girl, one of the many but perhaps more reckless and driven than most, who flipped out of her straight, middle-class background and Cheltenham Ladies College education through a looking glass into what she and others who followed or watched, hoped might be a brave new liberated world. It is the story of growing up the hard way in an easy age, with a round-the-world ticket in one hand, a glass in the other, and fear and loathing down below' -- Suzanne Lowry, Sunday Times

'The most unflinching personal account of addiction that I have read. Rosie Boycott is generous, brave, and hugely compelling' -- Sophie Dahl

'The story of growing up the hard way in an easy age, with a round-the-world ticket in one hand, a glass in the other, and fear and loathing down below' -- Sunday Times

'This is a beautiful and brutally honest book. A young woman's battle with alcohol addiction and struggle for meaning, it's as brave and fresh as when it was first written. That perpetual, perplexing question echoes across the decades. What does it mean to be a woman? And how, exactly, do we go about being one?' -- Sally Brampton

'Written with the kind of honesty and the kind of openness that make you realise what good writing is all about' -- Andrew O'Hagan

`Written with the pacy swing of intelligent literate journalism ... fast and bizarre enough for topselling fiction, but there's the voyeur addition of knowing it's true'
-- Guardian

'A NICE GIRL LIKE ME is the most unflinching personal account of addiction that I have read. First published in 1984 it remains ageless, without an ounce of self pity about it. It serves as both autobiography, and documentary history of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's. Rosie Boycott is generous, brave, and hugely compelling'