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Let’s chat about my some of my favorite memoirs!

now reading:
Anne Summers, Unfettered and Alive (2019): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42194350-unfettered-and-alive
buddy-read with Jaclyn @sixminutesforme: https://www.youtube.com/user/jaclynlindsaysmith

Five past favorites:
– Diana Athill, Stet (2000): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930990.Stet

– A.M. Homes, The Mistresses Daughter (2007): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29412.The_Mistress_s_Daughter

– Delphine de Vigan, Nothing Holds Back the Night (2014 / French edition 2011): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978191-nothing-holds-back-the-night

– Keggie Carew, Dadland (2016): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35412385-dadland

– Jenny Diski, In Gratitude (2016): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29243745-in-gratitude

Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittaboehler/

By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1

I also wrote some books:
The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01

Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
– Lonely Graves (2014)
– Lives Lost (2015)
– Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW

and for German readers:
– Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
– Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
– Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt/