She is remarkably efficient with her words, which means this memoir is delightfully moreish and fast paced. to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars) to becoming a mother (Birth is a beautiful thing, if your idea of beauty is a tractor pulling a combine harvester out of your vagina), Georgia Pritchett’s memoir takes us through a life lived anxiously. While not read by Georgia herself, Katherine Parkinson did a good job as narrator of this audiobook. Soul-baring yet lighthearted, poignant yet written with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life is a tour through the carnival funhouse of Georgia's life, from her anxiety-ridden early childhood where disaster loomed around every corner (When I was little I used to think that sheep were clouds that had fallen to earth. Told with warmth, pace and humour, it touches on dark areas while remaining both engaging and touching.

Her father is referred to as The Patriarchy, and her mother, The Witch, as a 4 year old Georgia thought God was Jimmy Osmond, and all the stories she was writing featured baby budgies falling from their nests and unable to find their way home. to embracing womanhood, (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars. Although the sense of humor is on point, it sometimes feels claustrophobic to put yourself in the author's shoes.

I always love reading books about anxiety and depression, as it makes me feel that I am not alone when I suffer. Even if you don’t share the exact same concerns or level of anxiety as Georgia, it’s likely you’ll find some relatability in her story. This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving sometimes not – with anxiety.

I thought most of the snippets were trying too hard to be funny (NOT succeeding), trying to be offbeat or trite (worrying about being single, dying alone, finding her body weeks later with her cat …). She has suffered some serious loss and faced several challenges but brings humor to sharing many of her experiences. Georgia has always had some anxiousness, even from a young age, some worries naturally more daunting than others. The book also features what is possibly the most unexpectedly heartwarming segment that I've read this year, featuring the author taking her eldest son (who is undemonstrative by nature and does not like loud noises or crowds) to a large wedding reception for one of his beloved teachers.A truly funny passage can be read, read again and re-read and one can be guaranteed to throw up a guffaw each time.

Told with warmth, pace and humour, it touches on dark areas while remaining both engaging and touching throughout. News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. I'm sure it was a cathartic experience and hope she knows that she will help many people with anxiety who read this, despite this not being a self help book as such- it's not about advice but it was insightful nonetheless.

Georgia invented a superhero alter ego and had an imaginary friend, Samantha, who was never keen on spending any time with her. This has everything you could ever want in a book – hamsters, one-legged action men, the queen, budgies, questionable fashion choices, Robertson’s Giant Limb, the word ‘vagina’ and Jimmy Osmond. That’s how Pritchett makes us see her beyond the glitter and glamour of celebrities she met or the awards she won. My favourite parts of this fabulous memoir are the emotionally heartbreaking miscarriages, the health scares of her partner, The Moose, and giving birth to her sons, the Speck and the Scrap, and the joys and challenges of raising them. My Mess is a Bit of a Life by Georgia Pritchett is probably the most fantastic memoir I have ever read.

Georgia has a way of bringing the reader into this world she's created in her head, holding your hand and guiding you through this messy life and making you feel everything with them. Though I don't have the successful career she has had, a lot of it resonated as she talked about her childhood, family, school, college, personal relationships and professional career and anxiety weaving its way through all of those. Overall I am glad I read this and feel like it helped to see anxiety so clearly understood by someone else, as it helped me feel less alone in my anxiety. Like Middlemarch, it has secrets, it has lies and it has an ongoing custody battle between my dog and me for ownership of my Starsky doll.

Pritchett’s series of short, sharp anecdotes are like particularly hilarious and insightful contributions to a conversation over cocktails. And, reading other reviews, people seem to think the author’s names for parents, partner and kids are hilarious, I thought the opposite.