‘I love this memoir - it's the sort of writing Hampton excels at. There's no-one else I know who can hit that dry, droll, edgy note and conjure place and time and character and the random nature of memory and story-telling.’ – Kim Mahood

‘Alive and compelling, and served up in perfect mouthfuls, like an antipasto plate . . . Honesty, great sentences, good flow. Surprises, escalation, energy, digression and return, causation.’ – Gail Bell

Susan Hampton has won many grants and awards for her work. The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, which she co-edited, became a set text on many writing courses. Surly Girls, performance pieces and short stories, won the Steele Rudd Award in 1990 (A&R/Collins Imprint, 1989). The Kindly Ones, (Five Islands Press, 2005) has been described as ‘… a weird satirical travelogue written by one of the Furies...’. It is an extraordinary poem: bold, bitter, intelligent and fantastical.’ It won the 2006 Judith Wright Award and was shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Awards for poetry, the Age Book of the Year Award, and the ACT Book of the Year Award.