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But she goes on to say: “The interesting part is that I voluntarily kept seeing him for a few weeks. Busy Being Free utterly thrilled me with its exposition of loneliness, solitude, and the differences between the two. Emma might work in the glamorous entertainment industry and used to be married to a successful actor, but they both still have to face their inner struggles and deal with less than enchanting life situations. 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.On the surface, Busy Being Free is about the end of her marriage to actor Ben Mendelsohn, and the tectonic lifestyle shift involved in moving from their LA mansion to an attic flat in north London, then solo parenting her young daughter through a pandemic. From 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.

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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? Especially frustrating is that there’s no growth in this respect- she decides to be celibate for five years, and then needs her ex-husband to draw her out of her obsession with her new boy toy once she’s ready to date again. At times I laughed out loud but I also nearly gave up on the book two or three times because the name dropping and superfluous vocabulary became irritating.When, after a life guided by romantic obsession, you decide to turn your back not only on marriage, but all romantic and sexual attachments? When I was a teenager, one man who – and I use my words very carefully here – had sex with me is now dead, and I know him to have been a very bad man, despite what the obituaries said.

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. Not to be missed… Disarmingly candid, she reveals how she put herself back together after shattering heartbreak. Having said that, there were parts of the book that I really enjoyed and that also made me reflect on my own experiences in a new light. 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. 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.But this is an exquisitely female perspective, I was enraptured by it’s revelatory and poignant glory. I did an English degree and especially enjoy poetic writing on topics that resonate with me such as this one, but the context in which these words were used (i. Emma Forrest is a master of voicing those human instincts and thoughts which feel too murky or ingrained to be articulated, and yet here she is doing so with enviable elegance on every page -- Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

It made me laugh when she highly recommended being creative without having to worry about paying the bills. A book that made me think about sex and desire in completely different ways and the tender painful brutality of love. The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood is one of the only books I have allowed myself to re-read in recent years. It is a memoir that magnificently captures decades’ worth of self-reflection around relationships, love, sex and forging a path back to one’s own identity when life takes unexpected turns.Emma Forrest’s memoir opens with a question from a north London mum who took one look at Forrest’s flat and asked: “How did this happen to you?