`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. Tackling subjects like addiction, fertility, feminism and sexual violence, and where these subjects intersect with legislation, these beautifully written essays are at once fascinating and funny, intimate and searingly honest. Honest, raw, brave and new, Notes to Self breaks new ground in the field of personal essays. Emilie Pine (born 1978) is a writer and lecturer in modern drama at University College Dublin (UCD). Her story, Notes to self, shows events in her private life. It tells her private stories about not having children, problem eating, problem drinking, becoming unmarried, forced sex, losing babies, being poor, body hair and thinking bad about these acts. Josefin Holmström said in Svenska Dagbladet that Pine's book showed a new way of talking about private female things. The book won the 2018 An Post Irish Book Awards book of the year prize.