A review by caterinaanna
My Mother's Wedding Dress by Justine Picardie

2.0

An oddly bitty book. I enjoyed some individual sections and end-of-chapter lists, but found paragraph-long parentheses rather wearing. I know I speak like that - and would write like it given the chance - so that is probably just a case of hating my own fault when I see it in another. The part that will stick in my mind is Erin O'Connor's story of catwalk torture rather than any of the never quite resolved explorations of family history inspired by an item of clothing or jewellery, or the descriptions of interviews that read like the bits that didn't quite make it into the article she was writing at the time.
[a:Diana Athill|25023|Diana Athill|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] does reflective musing much better.