Self-published memoir shortlisted for PEN/Ackerley prize
Lindesay Irvine writing in The Guardian, Tuesday April 22, 2008

For the first time, a self-published author has made it onto the shortlist for the prestigious PEN/Ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography. Jane Haynes's Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? is an unflinching journal of her life a psychotherapist, revealing as much about the author as her patients.

The other four titles in the running for the £1,000 prize are Ed Husain's account of his involvement in radical fundamentalism in The Islamist; Miranda Seymour's memoir of her father's tyrannical eccentricity, In My Father's House; Dannie Abse's memoir of his 50-year marriage written in the wake of his wife's death, The Presence; and John Lanchester's investigation of family secrets, Family Romance.

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