From the author of Your Voice in My Headand Royalscomes a beautiful,breath-taking,unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak,sex and celibacy,growing up and starting again.
What 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
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474620642Number of pages: 336Weight: 240 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm
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'A staggering piece of writing: I had to start it again the minute I finished reading it,and it was just as shocking,absorbing and beautiful on rereading'- Nigella Lawson
'Compelling,mystical,deeply moving,darkly funny. Busy Being Free is a poetic,incisive,uncensored study of female solitude. I adored it'- Dolly Alderton
'Alluring,shocking,welcome and wonderful'- Lisa Taddeo
'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day. 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. I think she might be a genius. Eve Babitz didn't die,she just regenerated as Emma Forrest'- Sophie Heawood
'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. This deep part of ourselves that somehow gets side-lined and subordinated by everything else. This ecstatic voice we so often manage to ignore. I can hear Emma's voice though,and it's woken me up'- Minnie Driver
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