The Glass Castle

‘Walls doesn’t pull her punches. Walls’s parents - just two of the unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual book - were a matched pair of eccentrics. And raising four children didn’t conventionalise either of them. [Walls has] a fantastic storytelling knack.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Just read the first pages of THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls, and I defy you not to go on. It’s funny, and sad, and quirky, and loving. I was incredibly touched by it.’ -Dominick Dunne, author of The Way We Lived Then : Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper and Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments * ‘Like JD Salinger or Hemingway before her, Jeannette Walls has the talent of knowing exactly how to let a story tell itself, crafted without self-pity or analysis or judgement’ Independent on Sunday * ‘A terrific story, grippingly told’ Sunday Times * ‘Funny and brilliantly written’ Evening Herald * ‘There isn’t a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionate book’ Marie Claire

Jeannette Walls lives in New York and on Long Island and is married to writer John Taylor. She is a regular contributor to MSNBC.com.