HOME IS WHERE WE START: Press/radio/interviews/podcasts:
ABC:The Drawing Room: Radio interview with Andy Park. Listen here:
Serialized in the Guardian – a 6-page feature that was #1 most read in the Lifestyle section and #5 across the entire Guardian (weekend of Aug 10, 2024)
Best New Books to Read in August 2024, iweekend -“Crossman’s extraordinary memoir of the tyranny of her childhood is heartbreaking, eye-opening and difficult to put down.”
“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
“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