No Rules: A Memoir

In this coming-of-age memoir, Sharon takes you with her on a nail-biting adventure through the early 1970s after leaving her sheltered home life at sixteen years old to join the hippies.

Yearning for freedom, she lands in an adult world for which she is unprepared, and must learn quickly in order to survive.

Reviews

  • “Nothing better than an emotional dose of truth telling to inspire a soul, and Dukett delivers!”

    —Julie Cantrell

    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Perennials

  • “No Rules is a compelling and complex memoir and a deep dive into intergenerational trauma, family, finding ourselves despite unconventional paths, and love in all its forms.”

    —IndieReader

  • “…a strong feminist success story. Bravo Sharon, a great story, well told."

    ―David Crow, Author

    The Pale-Faced Lie

  • “No Rules, like all great memoirs, grants the reader the feeling of time travel — immersing you in the body of someone who was there to witness a now-alien era.“

    —Salon

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  • “Dukett’s revealing memoir effectively captures the restless disillusionment of many members of the generation that came of age during the ’60s and ’70s. This illuminating coming-of-age account chronicles a young woman’s counterculture journey.”

    —Kirkus Reviews

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  • “Colorful, adventurous, and transformative…” “…unflinchingly raw and unapologetic…” “…No Rules is a thrill ride of a memoir.”

    —The Nerd Daily

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  • “No Rules does more than pull us into the adventures of a girl who finds the courage to leave home and forge a life contrary to everything she has been taught. It is also a reminder that every girl has the right―and owes it to herself―to grow, learn, succeed, and become the woman she is meant to be, no matter how difficult it is to find her way and her purpose in a male-dominated society.”

    ―Victoria Zackheim, Author

    The Bone Weaver

  • “. . .Dukett’s writing is exquisitely sparse and beyond all modern measure, competent. . . .Every page documents the early 1970s and every page rings true, both historically and personally. . . .Beyond flawless exposition, Dukett’s memoir also offers an unflinchingly honest recollection of her years in late adolescence as a “hippie chick” runaway and in her competent story telling hands that is one hell of a story.”

    —Corie Skolnick, Author

    Orfan and America's Most Eligible

  • “With No Rules, Dukett gives us acute reality around the teenage fantasy of being so mad at your mother you run away from home. Since it’s 1971 and dropping out is a generational pastime, her long journey to womanhood is peppered with the familiar signs of the counterculture times. . . . Relive those days, or experience it all for the first time at her side. You know you want to.”

    —Rita Dragonette, Author

    The Fourteenth of September

  • “This memoir is filled with beauty and fear and fearlessness and courage and audacity and words to inspire all girls and women that life, as Helen Keller once said, is an adventure . . . Read this book. Give it as a gift to every woman who needs to believe in the greatness of her own life.”

    ―Amy Ferris, Author

    Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis

  • “…Sharon Dukett has done an amazing job putting her teenager life on paper in No Rules: A Memoir. When you read it, you can almost feel the author sitting next to you, telling her story as an aunt or grandmother would.”

    —Readers’ Favorite

Award-winning

  • Award Winner Memoir Prize for Books (Adventure)

    2022

  • Award Winner Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Memoirs (Historical/Legacy)

    2021

  • Bronze Award 25th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Autobiography III (Personal Struggle / Health Issues)

    2021

  • Winner of the Sponsor’s Choice Prize National Indie Excellence Awards 

    2021

  • Finalist Award 15th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for Memoir.

    2021

  • Finalist Award Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    2020

  • Finalist Award International Book Awards in Autobiography / Memoir.

    2020

  • Finalist Award Readers Favorite Book Awards in Non-fiction – Women’s.

    2020

  • Finalist Award Best Book Awards in Women’s Issues.

    2020

  • Finalist Award Best Book Awards in Autobiography / Memoir.

    2020

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