An extraordinary new collection of unforgettable stories from the author of the acclaimed 'Bertie, May and Mrs Fish'
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"[A] lively collection of 26 autobiographical essays that employ a wide range of prose styles...With an evident love for language and the subtle textures of daily life, Bingley provides a dazzling trip inside her mind that rewards close attention. It’s a gem."
—Publishers Weekly
From the author of the UK bestseller Bertie, May and Mrs Fish comes an unforgettable exploration of memory, loss, and human connection.
In this collection of vivid portraits of the everyday, including Princess Diana's funeral, a 1960s James Brown concert, a bus ride through Wales, a hospital stay, and much more, Xandra Bingley reveals the fleeting transience of human life.
“Ways of Telling isn’t like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? Is it a cross between Ivy Compton-Burnett, who wrote novels entirely composed of conversations, and Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the end of Joyce’s Ulysses?… Ways of Telling is its own thing." —from Margaret Atwood's introduction
"Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally original, Ways of Telling knocked the breath out of me. It's dangerously exact, wilfully ambitious, wild in its scope and perfect in its precision." —Olivia Laing
"A sharp, wise and knowing eye, combined with a rare delicacy of prose — this is unlike anything else you will have read. An absolute treat." —Andrew Marr
Also from Notting Hill Editions
The Threshold and the Ledger
Tom McCarthy
On the Couch: Twenty Extraordinary Personalities, from Picasso to Putin
Andrew Jamieson
Changing my Mind
Julian Barnes
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