James Conor’s Reviews > A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip > Status Update

alexander masters does an adequate job of creating as he describes, a biography for a character uninteresting at best and neurotic at worst. not-mary, as the author refers to her was a diarist who over the course of a long life filled one hundred and forty eight diaries ( as per the namestake of the title) the author found these and seeks to create a biography while attempting to not reveal the diarist to himself.