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‘Life is way more fun when you’re clean’: Local author Michele Kirsch on her prize-winning memoir about addiction
The Citizen spoke to Kirsch after she was awarded the prestigious Christopher Bland Prize for her ‘beautifully crafted’ book
Clean, Michele Kirsch, book review: ‘Harrowing and hilarious anatomy of addiction’
The Hackney-based writer’s engaging memoir is ‘part confession, part attempt to come to terms with a life misspent’