Review
2020 Best Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir
2020 Best Book Awards Finalist in Women's Issues
2020 International Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir 2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Finalist in Non-Fiction: Women's "This illuminating coming-of-age account chronicles a young woman's counterculture journey. Dukett's revealing memoir effectively captures the restless disillusionment of many members of the generation that came of age during the '60s and '70s."
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Kirkus Reviews ". . . you can almost feel the author sitting next to you, telling her story as an aunt or grandmother would."
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Readers' Favorite (5-star review)
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No Rules does more than pull us into the adventures of a girl who finds the courage to leave home and forge a life contrary to everything she has been taught. It is also a reminder that every girl has the right--and owes it to herself--to grow, learn, succeed, and become the woman she is meant to be, no matter how difficult it is to find her way and her purpose in a male-dominated society."
--Victoria Zackheim, author of
The Bone Weaver "This memoir is filled with beauty and fear and fearlessness and courage and audacity and words to inspire all girls and women that life, as Helen Keller once said, is an adventure . . . Read this book. Give it as a gift to every woman who needs to believe in the greatness of her own life."
--Amy Ferris, author of
Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis "Beyond flawless exposition, Dukett's memoir also offers an unflinchingly honest recollection of her years in late adolescence as a "hippie chick" runaway and in her competent story telling hands that is one hell of a story."
--Corie Skolnick, author of
Orfan and
America's Most Eligible "With
No Rules, Dukett gives us acute reality around the teenage fantasy of being so mad at your mother you run away from home. Since it's 1971 and dropping out is a generational pastime, her long journey to womanhood is peppered with the familiar signs of the counterculture times. . . . Relive those days, or experience it all for the first time at her side. You know you want to."
--Rita Dragonette, author of
The Fourteenth of September "Colorful, adventurous, and transformative . . . unflinchingly raw and unapologetic . . .
No Rules is a thrill ride of a memoir."
--The Nerd Daily
"
No Rules, like all great memoirs, grants the reader the feeling of time travel -- immersing you in the body of someone who was there to witness a now-alien era."
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Salon
Review
2020 Best Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir
2020 Best Book Awards Finalist in Women's Issues
2020 International Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir
2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Finalist in Non-Fiction: Women's
“This illuminating coming-of-age account chronicles a young woman’s counterculture journey. Dukett’s revealing memoir effectively captures the restless disillusionment of many members of the generation that came of age during the ’60s and ’70s.”
―Kirkus Reviews
“. . . you can almost feel the author sitting next to you, telling her story as an aunt or grandmother would.”
―Readers’ Favorite (5-star review)
“No Rules does more than pull us into the adventures of a girl who finds the courage to leave home and forge a life contrary to everything she has been taught. It is also a reminder that every girl has the right―and owes it to herself―to grow, learn, succeed, and become the woman she is meant to be, no matter how difficult it is to find her way and her purpose in a male-dominated society.”
―Victoria Zackheim, author of The Bone Weaver
“This memoir is filled with beauty and fear and fearlessness and courage and audacity and words to inspire all girls and women that life, as Helen Keller once said, is an adventure . . . Read this book. Give it as a gift to every woman who needs to believe in the greatness of her own life.”
―Amy Ferris, author of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis
“Beyond flawless exposition, Dukett’s memoir also offers an unflinchingly honest recollection of her years in late adolescence as a “hippie chick” runaway and in her competent story telling hands that is one hell of a story.”
―Corie Skolnick, author of Orfan and America's Most Eligible
“With No Rules, Dukett gives us acute reality around the teenage fantasy of being so mad at your mother you run away from home. Since it’s 1971 and dropping out is a generational pastime, her long journey to womanhood is peppered with the familiar signs of the counterculture times. . . . Relive those days, or experience it all for the first time at her side. You know you want to.”
―Rita Dragonette, author of The Fourteenth of September
“Colorful, adventurous, and transformative . . . unflinchingly raw and unapologetic . . . No Rules is a thrill ride of a memoir.”
―The Nerd Daily
“No Rules, like all great memoirs, grants the reader the feeling of time travel ― immersing you in the body of someone who was there to witness a now-alien era.”
―Salon
About the Author
Sharon Dukett has been a computer programmer, deputy director in state government, cocktail waitress, and project manager (PMP certified), and she has designed and embroidered handmade clothing. She travels extensively using loyalty points and avoiding tourist traps. When she is home, she and her husband live in central Connecticut in a house he built that overlooks the Connecticut River―the house they raised their family in. When not writing or blogging, she is reading, skiing, biking, golfing, spending time with family and friends, creating clutter, and committing to more activities than she probably should. She loves reading memoir from a variety of backgrounds―to learn how others feel, experience life, and deal with their struggles. No Rules is her debut memoir.
