A Wolf at the Table - Tapa blanda

"So touching and wonderfully written that anyone else with "a no misery memoir" rule should make an exception" (London Lite)

"There is a depth here that moves his prose to another level. He has written a chilling, dark and deeply unsettling book that is, nonetheless, compulsive reading" (Attitude)

"A hauntingly well-crafted account of his difficult relationship with his father" (Irish Sunday Independent)

"Burroughs's gift is to look into the lion's mouth and find sweetness" (Fay Weldon)

From the author:
'My father doesn't feature much in Running with Scissors. And one of the reasons for this is because he didn't feature much in my life. But there's another reason, too: Our relationship was so complicated, so dark, so confusing and so big, that to tell the story would require a book. So finally, upon the death of my father in 2005, I decided to tell the story I have been most afraid yet most compelled to tell.'

This prequel to international hit Running With Scissors tells the story of Augusten's relationship with his tormented father: a man who sent his wife mad and saw his other son run away from home, prior to Augusten going into foster care. Harrowing, insightful and amusing by turns.