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  Memoirs Friday 27 September 2002  
Why has the confessional memoir become so popular?

Jo Mary Stafford struggled for twenty years to find a publisher for her story of a poverty?stricken post-war childhood.
Geraldine Bedell from the Observer and Jo Mary Stafford join Martha to discuss why unhappy childhood's make for a great read.
Light in the Dusk by Jo Mary Stafford, published by Blake Publishing Ltd; ISBN: 1903402875 (new edition)


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