I read 'Strangeland' by Tracey Emin in one sitting last weekend. She's always made me smile and her confrontational and honest ART is right up my strasse. The book had no insights into her creative processes or her position as the tart with the heart in ART but it was all the better for that. Her stories of Margate and Turkey and abortion clinics and booze and Mum and Dad were heartbreaking AND really funny. My tears were pricked several times on the subject of why life is worth living and how loneliness causes kids to kill themselves. If this book is another of her 'pieces' then it's one of the most beautiful and moving in her mighty collection.