What a collection of wonderful stories. They are at times a little out of order jumping from the present to the past and back with impunity. This did need some tougher editing but perhaps why it was being written, when it was being written and who was doing the writing, allowed the unedited 'chaos' to be left as is.

The stories are delightfully honest, yet careful with other people's lives, at times outrageously funny and at others you have to close the book and swallow to keep the tears at bay.