The Observer reviews Vanessa Nicolson

There was a terrific review of Vanessa Nicolson’s Have You Been Good? in last weekend’s Observer.

‘The grief is searing. In recording her own roles as both daughter and mother, Nicolson has penned a double helix to motherhood. It accounts for the many shades of experience that shouldn’t be, but so frequently are, endured in families, irrelevant of privilege.’

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The book is currently #4 in the Evening Standard bestseller list.

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Vanessa Nicolson

Vanessa Nicolson

Vanessa Nicolson was brought up in Florence and London, and graduated from Sussex University in Art History and Italian in 1979. She began her career at the Tate Gallery and has since worked as a feature writer, reviewer, curator and film programmer as well as an interviewer for the British Libra...More about Vanessa Nicolson