Rebecca Armstrong

Sep 10, 2024 | mediapost.com | Rebecca Armstrong

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Aug 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Leisa Scott |Rebecca Armstrong

Singer-songwriter Missy Higgins on the moment her life 'burned to the ground'Missy Higgins has tried therapy. But there's always a gap between what she wants the therapist to hear and the truth. So, she writes. "With …

Aug 3, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Rebecca Armstrong

“Spend time with any group of Western liberal people, and eventually someone will joke about ‘moving to a commune’”, writes Susanna Crossman in her superb but heartbreaking memoir Home Is Where We Start. She’s not wrong: it’s exactly the kind of comment we might make in jest after the commute from hell. But Crossman’s account of growing up in a utopian community in England during the 1970s and 80s puts paid to ideas of larking about with free love and long hair.

Jul 20, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Rebecca Armstrong

As designer Dame Zandra Rhodes points out in her memoir Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects, you can’t dye your hair hot pink and not expect people to talk about it. While Technicolour tresses have become more mainstream, sporting a neon fuchsia bob is still a calling card – especially if you’re 83. And so it’s not surprising that in this survey of her life and work, told through a very loose array of 50 possessions, number 36 is Pinkissimo hair dye by Crazy Color.

May 5, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Rebecca Armstrong

It’s a wild time to be a memoirist or a memoir fan. When we all have the ability to document and broadcast our lives, there’s an expectation, driven by the market, that writers have to share ever more of themselves. They are under pressure to build brands, gain subscribers, appear on podcasts and convince people to pre-order books. And actually write the books. It’s something that Clover Stroud, the British journalist and author, does with aplomb.