My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. building a career for herself in a deeply misogynistic industry, managing high levels of anxiety since childhood, and dealing with parenthood later on. The book begins as a recollection of a childhood filled with anxiety and grows into an exploration of the joys and intense challenges of professional and family life (and of course their inevitable intersections). I hadn’t heard of Georgia Pritchett before, although I now feel ashamed to say that given her impressive CV writing for pretty much every comedy show I could think of from ‘Spitting Image’ to ‘Veep’, ‘Have I Got News For You?

Because everyone can sound morose, but not everyone can take the morose of your life and transform it into muppets of gluey laughter. It feels very personal and honest, and I really liked that - although at times I was desperate for a bit more structure and a widening explanation of things. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. my toast popped out of the toaster and, simultaneously, a flaming mouse was catapulted out of the other side.

Louisa Joyner said: ‘Since opening Georgia’s manuscript my life has improved – never mind that the book is brilliant and funny and kind and generous and wise – I felt instantly that I had made a fantastic new friend on the page and I cannot wait to share that joy with a LOT of people. This is something I didn’t think would be possible when I compare my life (pottering round in Cheshire) with hers (pottering round the White House with celebrities). I always love reading books about anxiety and depression, as it makes me feel that I am not alone when I suffer. She addresses all these different aspects of her life with self-deprecatory humour balanced with emotionally charged moments. Pritchett’s series of short, sharp anecdotes are like particularly hilarious and insightful contributions to a conversation over cocktails.

Delightfully offbeat, painfully honest, full of surprising wonders, and delivering plenty of hilarious, laugh-out-loud moments, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life reveals a talented, vulnerable, and strong woman in all her wisecracking weirdness, and makes us love it—and her—too. She is remarkably efficient with her words, which means this memoir is delightfully moreish and fast paced.This original, fun, smart, comic and witty memoir is the result, it is largely in the form of anecdotes, vignettes, and thoughts, covering her childhood, where her anxious nature is apparent, family, school, college, personal relationships and her stellar professional career.

The vignettes can appear random and difficult to pin down in terms of when the events related happened. While not read by Georgia herself, Katherine Parkinson did a good job as narrator of this audiobook. Through musings, vignettes, observations and recollections, Georgia takes the reader on a journey that is impossible to put down.There are some great running jokes – Bob Dylan’s every appearance made me snort with laughter – but there is also real warmth in the descriptions. I thought it might have reflected the authors process with coming to terms with her anxiety with references to instances in her childhood before diagnosis. Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today.