Alluring, shocking, welcome and wonderful'Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day . For someone whose career has started in journalism, I didn’t ask anybody anywhere any of the most basic questions. Because someone who is that crazy, someone who takes beyond their fair share with their broken energy, cannot be the one to tell you you no longer exist. A beautiful, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again. In the age of social media, where most people try to paint a perfect picture of their (in reality) flawed lives, I find it really refreshing when someone is brutally honest about their thoughts and feelings.

e. talking about her husband’s obsession with a Kanye West song or her toyboy being ridiculously cool) just annoyed me. However, Forrest’s misery about her “small top-floor flat” seems trivial when she flaunts the wealth she continues to enjoy, including a custom-made spiral staircase, with a cut-out design to “cast light around the small space”.

A story about marriage and its life beyond divorce, but also about how we define ourselves through our relationships and the physical and emotional transformation that comes with maturity and middle age. Regardless of content a page turner deserves 5 stars because it was compelling enough to keep turning to find out what was next.

Some things she wrote beautifully about : how we can think our life is going one way and ends up going some where different and how the place you grow up is the source of all shame. lots of these little frenzied attacks of sheer raw self observation but coupled with as many “I fucking rock” mirror moments loll but very witty, and madly funny always. I wonder what it is like to live with a mind like Forrest's, which makes such shooting connections between things and sees a great pattern in it all.

About the Author: Born in London, Emma Forrest began her writing career as a teenage columnist on the Sunday Times, going on to have columns in The Guardian, the Independent and Elle. A look at what it is to be a woman, and what it is to define oneself outside of the framework so often ascribed to women – Busy Being Free is an absorbing account of being alone, and one you’ll want to read in a single, insatiable, sitting. gorgeous lush writing mixed with enough of life’s ugliness to get you thinking ‘hey wait a minute, I never thought of it like that before …. Her sharply funny, yet incisively honest examinations of her life experiences as a deeper rumination on the human condition have engrossed readers for many years… and Busy Being Free is no exception. It opens in London – where Forrest has moved to in the wake of her divorce from her Australian actor husband – when another mother visits her new flat and asks, “how did this happen to you?

It took away from the real life situations she was describing rather than add anything to them and this grated on me at times. They can stay a decade or a year or six months or three months or one night and what they saw with you will not go away just because they have. But it becomes clear as the book progresses that Trump is a convenient peg on which to hang this retreat from intimacy. I took comfort in many of the things she revealed she processed post divorce and her exploration of shame and disappointment. Her memoir Your Voice In My Head is beloved by Nick Hornby, Dolly Alderton, Bryony Gordon, Emma Gannon, Florence Welch and Elizbeth Gilbert.Despite sometimes having to re read a sentence, I thoroughly enjoy the juiciness and honesty of Emma's writing. But the fact that she has written about this midlife excavation with such ferocity and frankness is cause for celebration. A book that made me think about sex and desire in completely different ways and the tender painful brutality of love.