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Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta's began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue.
In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas Day, her mother being institutionalised twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with Ruth Graham. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalisation and a near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares how she overcame obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there, research in a medical examiner's office turned into a full-time job. She would become a forensic expert.
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The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede her own.