Reviews
The Telegraph
Do you remember how you smelled at the key moments of your life? This scent memoir told through perfumes is ingenious. Base Notes reviewed by Tomoé Hill...
The Spectator
The strange potency of cheap perfume. Adelle Stripe has constructed a memoir around 18 key fragrances, but it is the Body Shop’s cheery Dewberry that evokes her worst teenage experience. Base Notes reviewed by Suzi Feay...
The Guardian
An olfactory trip down memory lane.
The novelist uses perfume to conjure scenes from a working-class upbringing in this funny, bleak memoir. Reviewed by Fiona Sturges.
The Observer
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure reviewed by Miranda Sawyer.
The Spectator
From Bradford to Belgravia. Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile reviewed by Andy Miller.