HOME IS WHERE WE START: Press/radio/interviews/podcasts:

Interviews/podcasts/radio (with links):

Video of event for Home Is Where We Start at Lighthouse Bookshop with Ewan Morrison. Watch here.

Interview on podcast ‘Lit With Charles’. Listen here.

Interview on podcast Bureau of Lost Culture with Stephen Coates. Listen here.


ABC:The Drawing Room: Radio interview with Andy Park. Listen here.

Extracts from Home Is Where we Start, in the Guardian – a 6-page feature that was #1 most read in the Lifestyle section and #5 across the entire Guardian. read here.

Reviews/print press:

“As countless Orwellian dystopias have taught us, it is in the nature of the pursuit of equality to morph into its opposite, and under the banner of freedom there will always lurk a menacing revisioning of conventional right and wrong.” The Spectator

“Vivid and painfully honest…There’s something of a Deborah Levy sensibility here.  It’s serious and poetic.  It’s delicate and wise.  It’s a multilayered excavation, a rich but also careful unfolding of the truth.”  The Sunday Times 

Best New Books to Read, iweekend -“Crossman’s extraordinary memoir of the tyranny of her childhood is heartbreaking, eye-opening and difficult to put down.”

 

“Fascinating…vivid and poignant details make Home Is Where We Start a powerful memoir of a particularly unusual childhood.” The Observer

 

“I hugely admire Crossman’s resistance against the tyranny of it all – and her constant will to survive…Throughout the book she interrogates utopian ideas, as well as sharing insights from psychological research, philosophical thinking and her therapeutic practice.” the i newspaper

 

“Ambitious…Compelling…The diarist’s sense of urgency and the child’s creative use of language have stayed with her, often producing vivid prose”.  Financial Times

 

“This isn’t a misery memoir. Crossman examines philosophical and sociological perspectives on the meaning of home, giving insight both into why utopias are unattainable and why we shouldn’t try to reach them in the first place.”  IrelandLive

 

“She examines philosophical and sociological perspectives on the meaning of home, giving insight into why utopias are unattainable.”  Daily Express, Four New Books to Read This Week