"This arch anti-memoir of life as an artist is both comic and fascinating." The Irish Times
"A brilliantly experimental, funny and angry memoir about art, class and more." Jen Calleja "Witty, smart and original, she is a multiplicity of selves and practices like light refracted through a prism [...] This book is the work of art." Trish Lyons
"A revelatory and exhilarating memoir [...] gleefully subverting the form." The Glasgow Review of Books
Read an interview in PORT, with Andrew Gallix, and/or an extract in 3: AM. An article on the books that have influenced the work also appears in Frieze.
"A wry, unsparing weave of formative episodes and structural ironies [...] This unvarnished world is marbled through with brilliance and shit." Sally O’Reilly
"Finlay's life never merges into a pleasing whole and happily fails to do so [...] Yet, in whatever dire conditions, Finlay masters this rare quality of glamour." Berlin Art Link
"Thank you for saving my life." Daisy Lafarge
"Writing that turns with the unexpected sharpness that living demands [... and] scattered observations of wit and quiet beauty." The Arts Desk
"Real insights into the pitfalls of the 'art economy' versus the forbearance of an evolving identity and aesthetic ... This must have been fun to write." Jack Skelley
"Brilliant, funny, and despairing." Sinead Gleeson
"Fast and funny confessional (perhaps) of the contemporary creative life [...] and did I say, great comic timing. Love it." Tony White
"An extremely dry kind of deadpan smart and funny which I immediately warmed to ... 10/10 highly recommend." Jon McGregor
"Finlay shares our realities with disdain, honesty, wit, and desire, so that we can create something better together." Impulse Magazine "A hugely compulsive memoir [...] It's bloody great. Totally recommended" Crack Magazine