A British jury found in favor of author Constance Briscoe and her publisher Hodder & Stoughton in the odd case in which her mother Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell claimed the book UGLY was “a piece of fiction.” Briscoe said, “I can quite understand why my family went into collective denial but whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors it should never be swept under the carpet.” But the Guardian suggests that this will mark the permanent decline of the “misery memoir,” which has flourished in the UK even as it has faded in the US and elsewhere. “Despite Briscoe’s victory […]