5 Top biography books like Mother Ship by Francesca Segal

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Mother Ship

By: Francesca Segal

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

‘Heart-wrenching, heart-warming and heartfelt – Mother Ship is a beautifully crafted, warts-and-all…

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1. The Edible Woman

By: Margaret Atwood

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiance… read more

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2. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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3. Mother Mother

By: Annie Macmanus

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mother Mother is a powerful coming-of-age novel and an intimate family study. It's about finding li… read more

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4. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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5. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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  • biography
  • parenting
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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6. A Tidy Ending

By: Joanna Cannon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more

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7. Pod

By: Laline Paull

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more

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"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."

-Laline Paull, Pod

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8. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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9. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

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"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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10. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

By: Hadley Freeman

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"

-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

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11. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Francesca Segal's Mother Ship

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. The Membranes

By: Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more

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14. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

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15. Questa è l'America: Storie per capire il presente degli Stati Uniti e il nostro futuro

By: Francesco Costa

4.21

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Ci sono pochi posti nel mondo dove il divario tra quello che crediamo di sapere e quello che sappia… read more

Similar categories in Francesco Costa's Questa è l'America: Storie per capire il presente degli Stati Uniti e il nostro futuro book and Francesca Segal's Mother Ship

  • nonfiction
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16. Five Years From Now

By: Paige Toon

4.03

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

'Tender, heartbreaking and magical . . .  I went from feeling warm and fuzzy to shock, delight befo… read more

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17. The Farm

By: Joanne Ramos

3.49

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private … read more

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"The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong."

-Joanne Ramos, The Farm

"And suddenly she is exhausted. And sad. A sadness so vast she feels like she is drowning in it... Because nothing is going to change."

-Joanne Ramos, The Farm

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18. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

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19. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

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20. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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21. Mother Ship

By: Francesca Segal

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

‘Heart-wrenching, heart-warming and heartfelt – Mother Ship is a beautifully crafted, warts-and-all… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Segal's Mother Ship book and Francesca Segal's Mother Ship

  • biography
  • parenting
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction

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A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

4.62

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Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

4.48

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Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

Hadley Freeman

3.92

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The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

Gwen Adshead

4.34

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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Nicole Chung

4.01

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Ann Napolitano

4.16

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