''Spit-your-tea-out funny.'' -Fern Brady
''Raw, brutal and life-affirming'' -Sara Pascoe
''Addictive, exhilarating and raw'' -Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable
''Graphic, explicit, visceral'' -Irish Times
''Blistering'' --Sunday Business Post
''Transcendent'' -Irish Independent
Marise was nine when she first realised there was trouble, 14 when her Dad tried to end it all, and 23 when he finally succeeded.
In a turmoil of conflicting emotions she runs, leaving behind Dublin and her Catholic girlhood and fleeing to New York, where she gets into a messy relationship with an older comedian who she idolises and who tells her she''s special - until she''s not. With a trail of sex, self-destruction and a near miss with Scientology in her back pocket, eventually she finds herself in a California psych ward, a young woman imploding.
As she retells her unravelling from ch
