Shortlisted for the James Tait Black biography prize 2019A moving memoir. Sunday TimesGripped me from the first page. Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless NightsA gripping read... a riveting piece of writing. Radio 4What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? What becomes of the things we leave behind?Only after her mothers death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, Susannah has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures filling bag after bag with possessions. But what shes really in search of is a woman shed never really known or understood in life. This is her last chance to piece together her mothers story and make sense of their troubled relationship. What emerges from the mess of scattered papers, discarded photographs and an extraordinary amount of stuff is the history of a sad and fractured family, haunted by dead children, divorce and alcohol. The Life of Stuff is a deeply personal exploration of mourning and the shoring up of possessions against the losses and griefs of life, which also raises universal questions about what makes us the people we are.Compelling and moving. Ruth HoganAn excellent memoir. Cathy Rentzenbrink

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