We'd Have Told Each Other Everything

'Katy Derbyshire’s translation is elegant and polished . . . Children are born and grow up, careers established and abandoned, love affairs, marriages and friendships made and dismantled. Contemporaries sicken and die, parents get old. The past seems stickier in one’s fifties and the reckonings loom large . . . Her “beautifully sad, tough life” endures in this luminous dialogue of self and soul.' -- Catherine Taylor * The Financial Times *
‘A beautifully written and moving book about the connections between life and writing. About how silence and secrets in lived experience translate into writing which has gaps, which has things left out, but which often leave a kind of afterglow . . . It’s also a brave account of Judith Hermann’s own upbringing and family life, and the effect of those complex relationships on her and her writing.’ -- Mandy Wight * peakreads *
‘Remarkable . . . A very introspective collection with a dream-like quality filtering through the words. It is a self-analysing memoir, a work that blurs the lines between reality and fiction with Hermann questioning her own memory at certain times. It’s a very vulnerable read with a raw honesty flowing through the chapters, depicting all the flaws and fractures of Hermann’s past and present.’ -- Mairéad Hearne * Swirl and Thread *