Paperback pick: She Left Me The Gun
An 'anti-misery memoir' from Guardian journalist Emma Brockes
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She Left Me The Gun
by Emma Brockes (Faber, £8.99)
When British journalist Brockes’ mother passed away, she decided to investigate the mysterious South African childhood that her mother never spoke of.
She discovers dark family secrets and a hushed-up court case that explained why her mother kept a gun in her bedroom drawer…