First there was Running with Scissors , then Dry and now the most famous memoirist of our time returns with his earliest childhood memories. In A Wolf at the Table, Burroughs makes a quantum leap forward into unmapped emotional terrain: the pendulum swing between love and hate within the terrifying relationship he endured with his tormented and sadistic father. By turns harrowing and heartbreaking, A Wolf at the Table is ultimately a redemptive story about love, longing and letting go. 'There is a depth here that moves his prose to another level. He has written a chilling, dark and deeply unsettling book that is, nonetheless, compulsive reading and makes you look back on your own childhood and realise it wasn't that bad after all' Attitude 'A very different beast from Burroughs's previous memoirs . This disturbing tale of Burroughs's early years and his troubled relationship with his father make for a much more uncompromising book' Metro 'A hauntingly well-crafted account of his difficult relationship with his father' Irish Sunday Independent 'A harrowing and cathartic memoir' Dazed and Confused 'Burroughs's gift is to look into the lion's mouth and find sweetness' Fay Weldon 'So touching and wonderfully written that anyone else with "a no misery memoir" rule should make an exception' London Lite.