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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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A good reminder that perhaps that life isn’t all beer and skittles and rivers of chocolate, regrettably. This book contains a series of vignettes depicting and inflating (no doubt) some of the most absurd elements of Pritchett’s life. My Mess is a Bit of a Life by Georgia Pritchett is probably the most fantastic memoir I have ever read.

Some of Pritchett’s experiences are heartbreaking, yet there is a matter-of-fact presentation of them and an ability to see humour in the darkest of situations. the snippets of her life shared within this show us who she is and how she came to attain the success she rightfully does. She addresses all these different aspects of her life with self-deprecatory humour balanced with emotionally charged moments. 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.

She is remarkably efficient with her words, which means this memoir is delightfully moreish and fast paced. That’s how Pritchett makes us see her beyond the glitter and glamour of celebrities she met or the awards she won. Delightfully offbeat, painfully honest, full of surprising wonders, and delivering plenty of hilarious, laugh-out-loud moments, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life reveals a talented, vulnerable, and strong woman in all her wisecracking weirdness, and makes us love it—and her—too. I always love reading books about anxiety and depression, as it makes me feel that I am not alone when I suffer. 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 Pritchett's credit she bypasses sounding too maudlin and steadily keeps the tone breezy and succinct, with her sharp essays or chapters usually only one or two pages in length. I’m always on the lookout for books that make me laugh and – as it made me giggle to myself in Waterstones – this one hit the spot in seconds. But it’s more than just a few laughs; Pritchett is very frank and honest about the highs (working on Veep) and the lows (two young sons on the autism spectrum) of her life, all navigated while managing her own intense anxiety. 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.

It also means it's hard to put down because when the chapters are so short you think, just one more. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). From the earliest recollection, we have feelings of anxiety and fear, as well as a few laughs along the way.

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