Memoir as truth-telling

Saturday, 16 March 2024
9:00 am 10:00 am

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“No-one is boring if they tell the truth,” said Quentin Crisp. A memoir might be a cathartic experience with the need to heal and ‘set the story straight’ or it may be a way of having a record of your life for family and friends. But finding the best way to tell your story can be the hardest part of writing it, and the truth of your life is often challenging and elusive.We talk to two authors of very different memoirs about why it was important to tell their story in their own words, and how they balanced being both the narrator and main character in their books.

In conversation with Bonita Mersiades.

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Lisa Gallate is a senior commercial litigator specialising in class actions and corporate insolvency with a master’s degree in law from Cambridge University.