Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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This book picks up where “Your Voice In My Head” leaves off, and gives the same honest self-examination that you’d expect.There’s dense, lovely prose in here, and it’s the type of memoir that doesn’t shy from embarrassing or unflattering details. 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? Refreshing to read about a women in her 40s who is still living and not just surviving with a life based entirely around other’s needs. But this is an exquisitely female perspective, I was enraptured by it’s revelatory and poignant glory. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Despite sometimes having to re read a sentence, I thoroughly enjoy the juiciness and honesty of Emma's writing. To describe a memoir as solipsistic may seem redundant, but Busy Being Free is solipsistic in the best way: that is to say, Forrest is hyper-aware that she is telling her own story. Her writing hums with life, honesty and intelligence and underneath the romance and red carpets is loneliness and vulnerability. 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.This book is billed as a story of female emancipation, albeit a very straight, white, middle-class one. 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?

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. But I tried to stay with her frame of reference and could see that coming from a huge Californian house would be a huge adjustment and I accepted her invite into her assimilation and transformation, warts and all.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. Sexual confidence is one thing, and admirable, but reviewing your whole life in terms of how disruptively irresistible you've been just feels really vain, not to mention limited in terms of what insight it can bring.