'The natural world is a mutable reality,defined first and foremost by its softness.'In this deftly woven work of memoir, Flora Feltham explores the cornerswhere her memories are stashed: the archive vault, her mother's house,a marriage counsellor's office, the tip, and New World. She takes us on afrenzied bender in Croatia, learns tapestry, and meets romance novelists, allwhile wondering how families and relationships absorb the past, as well aseverything unsaid about grief, mental illness, or even love. Most importantly,she asks, how do you write about a life honestly - when there are so manyflaws in the way we record history and, more confrontingly, in the way weremember?Bad Archive is a lucid, continually surprising, funny and at times bracinglypersonal essay collection by the winner of the Letteri Family Prize forCreative Nonfiction in 2021.