My Life in Receipts

Charting a life spent lost in numbers, is My Life in Receipts a memoir? Too fictionalised. A novella? Too close to the truth. All too recognisable? YES!From chanting times-tables and unlearning old money to discovering the sinking schoolroom ''Maths Feeling'' that ends a child''s ambitions to be a ''scientist''. From the promissory note of student days to the hard times of the dole giro. From the ...