This Ragged Grace

A Memoir of Remembering and Forgetting

By: Octavia Bright

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Paperback | 3 December 2024

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256 Pages

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19.8 x 12.9 x 1.5

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A beautiful, brave, ideas-rich, open and electric reckoning - with addiction, loss, self and hope in your twenties and thirties

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: BIOGRAPHY

This Ragged Grace tells the story of Octavia's journey through recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father's descent into Alzheimer's. Over the course of seven years life continues to unfold. Paths are abandoned, people fall ill, waters get choppy, seemingly impossible things are navigated without the old fixes.

As Octavia moves between London, Stromboli, New York, Cornwall and Margate, each place offers something new but ultimately always delivers the same message: that wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Industry Reviews

'An intimate, raw, empathetic story of loss, recovery, love and human fragility. This Ragged Grace is a beautifully written and intricately observed masterpiece of a memoir' - DOLLY ALDERTON

'An extraordinary, electrifying book about loss, chaos, addiction and death, and the wild work of staying tender in the face of it' - OLIVIA LAING

'The intelligence of the writing is a kind of grace in itself - light and deep and beautiful' - DEBORAH LEVY

'A beautifully written and intellectual account of a woman coming to terms with herself . . . Heartbreakingly tender . . . Her sensitivity to the world is what makes the writing so beautiful and, ultimately, hopeful. Death hovers on every page and yet this book is full of life' - The Times

'This Ragged Grace is smart and tender, and honest in that raw way that gets you at the back of your throat. It is slowly revealing of the world, and an avalanche of feeling, all at the same time. A towering act of grace, in fact' - EMILIE PINE

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