After all, this is a family memoir, and are we ever completely honest about our families?

She has published short stories, essays, four books of poetry, and a family memoir.

Last year in these pages, Ward called this a "wonderful family memoir."

Their new book, a family memoir and cookbook, makes the comparison even stronger.

Further unpublished pieces by Jane appeared in a family memoir.

But "when and if" she does pen her family memoirs, it will be "all positive."

There was a new vogue for family memoirs.

She later completed a 3-volume family memoir and assisted with the publication of Gunars' collected poems.

Since Padel is a Darwin descendant, the book was also a family memoir.

The result is a book that is less a family memoir than a deconstruction of a sacred family place.