Don't read this for a good, happy read. David Hare is a miserable git, by his own admission. The trouble is, that he has some worthwhile things to say. This autobiography takes us from his early days and end with his parents death, the end of his marriage and a questioning of his future as a dramatist.

Hare is brutally honest about his life and never blames others for the painful events that can be found therein. This is a book that you could read, and appreciate, were you to have no passion for Hare's oeuvre and don't share his left leaning politics: this is a story about being human. I much admire anyone who can lay themselves bare in this fashion. He never hides from the unpleasant and is far harder upon himself than any body else. I suspect that he is harder on himself than the other players in the drama would be about him too.

A book well worth the read. ( )