Notes to John

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‘Utterly fascinating … shares with Blue Nights the subject of mother and daughter, generational trauma and general anxiety, and both are written with Didion's constitutional meticulousness’ New York Times

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'An incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression, and creativity' Guardian

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‘Raw and intimate … An unfiltered stream of brutal self-examination from a writer who was painfully conscious about shaping her public image’ New York Times Book Review

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‘A profound, rich document’ New Statesman

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‘An act of intimate storytelling … the diehard Didion fans (we know who we are) will feel hypnotized by these pages’ Vogue

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‘Written with the immediacy of fresh recollection … Readers of her memoirs will recognise how these notes inform those final books – the striving to understand and the sense of futility that comes with it’ New Yorker

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‘Has a candour which refutes any charges of exploitation’ Julian Barnes, author of Departure(s), in the New Statesman

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‘It’s fascinating to see her making connections and presenting evidence of misremembered parts of her past … offers insight into her work’ iPaper

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‘‘An unfiltered and unrestrained glimpse into domestic distress, the unavoidable guilt of motherhood, and the great burden of legacy’ The Nation

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‘A tour de force from one of the best’ People

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‘A valuable glance behind the scenes, a study of how her outlook, and the weight of her talent, factored into life off the page’ Irish Independent

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‘An unfiltered glimpse into the mind of the New Journalism poster girl’AnOther

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‘Much of Notes to John will feel familiar to anyone who’s coped with a loved one cycling between recovery and relapses. Her notes capture the maddening, circular nature of this dilemma’ Slate

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‘A reckoning with what one can and can't accept or change’ Alta

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‘An unexpected parting gift to biographers and civilian readers … direct and personal, shorn of vanity’ Air Mail

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