'The pages of this memoir are lit with movingly vivid recollections of friendship and adventure and fierce childhood games, but although there is plenty to enthuse about, the book's real magic lies in its understatedness. Original and memorable' Mail on Sunday
Laura Shaine Cunningham is a playwright and novelist whose works include the plays Bang, Beautiful Bodies and Cruising Close to Crazy and the acclaimed memoirs, A Place in the Country and Sleeping Arrangements. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Allure, Vogue, and many other publications. She was born and raised in New York City.