Better Broken Than New by Lisa St Aubin de Teran review from bank robber's bride to best young novelist
Briefly

Her beginnings, we learn, were fittingly unconventional. She was conceived in a mental hospital... Lizzie, as she was known in childhood, with saving her.
Cheating death thanks to a premonition, cooking for a cannibal and surviving the apparently murderous ministrations of a racist maternity nurse... and fighting off a homicidal gang of home invaders with a hunting knife in her 60s.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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