Better broken than new: a fragmented memoir

Following a successful career as an award-winning novelist, Lisa St Aubin de Ter?n retreated to a remote village in Mozambique.

There she found her own African roots, founded a charity and confronted new challenges.

Much has been written about her escapades with a trio of Venezuelan exiles, life on an Andean hacienda, her return to literary fame, and two decades living in a crumbling Umbrian palace.

But despite the media hype about her, she managed to hide much of her actual life.

Now, like the Japanese art of kintsugi, Lisa puts the shattered pieces of her life back together, filling in many of the dramatic, often scandalous, gaps.

While her life has been said to be stranger than fiction, it is fiction that has kept her afloat.

This memoir sets the record straight.