THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An honest, heartbreaking and brutally funny memoir about losing a mother you never really had - and a comfort to anyone who knows that love can be complicated. 'I was just bowled over by this book' - Nigella Lawson ‘Often rancorous, sometimes furious, never self-indulgent’ - Financial Times 'Brisk and funny and beautifully done' - The Times 'Unsparing . . . but also a loving elegy' - The New York Times 'By turns hilarious and heartbreaking' - Oprah Daily 'Punchy . . . with moments of deep sadness leavened by a sardonic humour' - The Guardian 'A gripping memoir . . . exquisitely relatable' - Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone 'Lines so good you won't just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share' - The Washington Post Raw, moving and seriously funny, How to Lose Your Mother is Molly Jong-Fast's account of a sometimes chaotic upbringing and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother’s heartbreaking