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Open by Andre Agassi (Knopf, 2009) and The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005) At the end of Andre Agassi’s superbly written memoir Open, there are two pages of [...]

At a recent Life Righting Collective Follow-up Group (aka FUG), I got to thinking about the sort of healing that writing can initiate. One of us wrote about writing off a car at the age of 21 – [...]

Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin, published on 10 March 2017 by Harper Collins: R291.00 This is the long-awaited ‘real story’ of the much-loved Tales of the City author, Armistead [...]

It’s 1995 and we’re on the 2 633 mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) with a young woman who’s using 1 100 miles of it as life repair. She’s in the middle of nowhere, her feet are a bloody mess (in all [...]

Published August 2018 by Jacana/MF Books Desirée-Anne Martin is a force. For recovery. For self-love. For hope. Witness the last three sentences of her book – in the Acknowledgements: “And to all [...]

Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story directed by Daryne Joshua and scripted by Amy Jephta, released September 2018 If you’re daunted by the prospect of two hours of despair and partial redemption, [...]

Thank you to Helen Grange, the Argus and Independent Newspapers for this very positive review. Now tell everyone you know – if you haven’t already! And thanks to all the LRC writers [...]

A memoir with a series of grim and bizarre twists that, true to life writing, is way stranger than fiction.

We felt this production deserved a review because its very reason for being is life righting

Scaachi Koul – pronounced with a silent first ‘c’ (or rather, not pronounced) – is a bit of a phenomenon