so gorgeously written and deeply insightful, and with a line of narrative tension that never slacks, from the first page to the last, that it's one you'll likely read in a single, delicious sitting * New York Times Book Review * In this stunning tale of treachery - unsettling yet seductive - we are led through some of the darkest and most alluring corridors of the human heart * O Magazine * Wild Game tells an extraordinary family story, but this riveting memoir will touch all mothers and daughters. builds with anticipation and continues to unfold with observations and revelations * Best Books of 2019 * A sumptuous memoir of Brodeur's glamorous, cocktail-sodden, spectacularly self-involved mother - Emma Beddington * Sunday Times * Exquisite and harrowing. As books about families, sex and complicity go, this one's right up there - Rachel Cooke * Observer * Rich in details.intimate yet revealing in their way of a whole world.thrilling - Joanna Scutts * Times Literary Supplement * Impossible-to-look-away-from.

describes - beautifully - the anguish of a child trapped in a tangled web of love and betrayal that affects her emotional decisions into adulthood * The Times * Eye-popping. Wild Game is a memoir that reads like a novel. 'Not since The Glass Castle has a memoir conveyed such a complex family bond, in which love, devotion, and corrosive secrets are inextricably linked' J. And ultimately, it's a story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us that moving forward is possible. It's about mothers and daughters and the nature of family. It's about the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. This is a book about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life - and her mother - on her own terms.

The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved, impacting Adrienne's life in profound ways, driving her into a doomed marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. Adrienne instantly became her mother's confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband's closest friend. On a hot August night on Cape Cod, when Adrienne was 14, her mother Malabar woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me. A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity Every time I fail to become more like my mother, I become more like me.

Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur