Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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Uumlber den AutorrnrnBorn 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. It took away from the real life situations she was describing rather than add anything to them and this grated on me at times. Busy Being Free is the most romantic book you will ever read about the end of a relationship; a memoir about love and heartbreak, marriage and divorce and what comes after that. In the intervening years she has published novels, written screenplays and directed a movie; still readers who know her only through the first memoir treat her delicately.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Despite sometimes having to re read a sentence, I thoroughly enjoy the juiciness and honesty of Emma's writing. A beautiful, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again. When you find yourself not lonely, but elated - elated to be alone with yourself, who you genuinely thought you might never get to see again? Reading Busy Being Free isn't like reading at all, in the sense that you will never look at how many pages you have left, or wonder whether this was the page you got stuck on last night before sleep.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? Neuware - 'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day' Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover GamesWhat happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would When the dream life you have been working towards becomes something you must walk away from When you swap a Hollywood marriage and a LA mansion with waterside views, for a little attic flat shared only with your daughter, beneath the star-filled sky of deepest North London When you find yourself not lonely, but elated - elated to be alone with yourself, who you genuinely thought you might never get to see again When, after a life guided by romantic obsession, you decide to turn your back not only on marriage, but all romantic and sexual attachments. A friend of mine was going through a divorce and this book helped me be a better support for her, even though she is far removed from Hollywood-type divorce. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Having to look at Donald Trump did not make me want to fuck,” she says, speaking for every woman alive (including, I suspect, Melania). I did like her descriptions of the women in her life, and that some bits were very honest and emotional, with real pockets of insight (just annoying that they were always shortly followed by something shallow or vapid).

Hitting themes of heartbreak, romance, celibacy and self-discovery, it's a testament to the power of putting yourself first. Reading Busy Being Free isn’t like reading at all, in the sense that you will never look at how many pages you have left, or wonder whether this was the page you got stuck on last night before sleep. I think she might be a genius' Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games'I've really never read about sex and been so sharply reminded about how much it is tied up with the fundamentals of being a woman'Minnie DriverFrom the author of Your Voice in My Head and Royals comes a beautiful, breath-taking, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again. br>
When you find yourself not lonely, but elated - elated to be alone with yourself, who you genuinely thought you might never get to see again?