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Article: Get a life, you lovers of misery memoirs
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2008
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CONSTANCE Briscoe, the author of the misery memoir Ugly, is being
sued for libel by her mother, Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, who says it's
fiction.
Will the case help to discredit the whole icky genre, true or
false? Let's hope so. It has been reported that sales of miz-mems
are down by nearly a third from their peak but that still leaves
them taking a major chunk of the whole biography market, once the
celebs have been discounted.
If you check out the mizzy section in WH Smith, there's an
amazing quantity of formulaic product out there, obviously feeding a
habit.
They all boast much the same picture on the cover bleached-out
kiddie and use much the same title too.
Past participles drive home ...