Penguin Books, 2023. Good secondhand condition.

From the best-selling and acclaimed author Barbara Else, Laughing at the Dark is a funny, moving memoir about how she rebelled against being a ?good girl?.

By the time she was in her forties, Barbara was married to a globally recognised academic physician and had two beautiful teenage daughters. As her writing career developed, her husband became angry at the prospect of her being anything but a housewife. In a moment of madness ? or realisation ? she packed her car and took off to live with the man who would become her second husband.

With her trademark wit and humour, Barbara poignantly describes her transformation from a shy but stubborn child into a fulfilled and successful adult.

?I laughed and laughed, and I cried and cried. It?s got everything in it except a murder.? ? Lesley Graham, soprano (and totally unbiased sister)