A hilarious and brilliant memoir from a unique new female voice, for lovers of Caitlin Moran and Lindy West

Claire Dederer's youth was wild, an endless cascade of beer and rock and acid and sex. After two decades of disciplined transformation, she'd become a successful writer, a faithful wife and a mother - a real adult. That is, until one morning at forty-four when she begins to have what she calls 'extremely inconvenient feelings' - feelings of recklessness and impatience and a sudden yearning for jailbreak. That hedonistic girl, 'that crazy bitch', was back - or had she never left?

With extraordinary insight, ingenuity and wit, LOVE AND TROUBLE captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood and life itself.

Claire Dederer has written what is surely one of the most excruciatingly frank memoirs ever - raw, revealing and explicit... I read Love and Trouble compulsively, at once fascinated and repulsed