Strangeland

'Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman.

I never dreamt it would be like this. 'Tracey Emin's "Strangeland" is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London.

Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging.

Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty.

Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life.

It is a remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.