The process

​I recommend anyone who is studying autobiographies to have a go at writing their own. The inherent issues in recording one’s life life immediately become apparent: ‘why?’, ‘right?’, ‘really?’, ‘when?’, ‘joke?’, ‘funny?’, ‘appropropriate?’, ‘libellous?’, ‘sued?’, ‘arrested?’  Other things: ‘my story’, ‘my words’, ‘my identity’, ‘pick the bones’.
I also recommend anyone who is not studying autobiographies to have a go at writing their own, particularly, if you are a working-class woman.
When I have finished, I will try to get it published. If I can’t, I will stick it in the loft.