Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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Beautiful' Nigella Lawson'I adored it' Dolly Alderton'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo'Intoxicating' Abi MorganWhat happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would? For Forrest, who remains the primary carer for her and her ex-husband’s young daughter, freedom means feeling in control of her body and sexuality, regaining the sense of herself that for decades she cast aside in pursuit of romantic obsession. I had no expectations and knew nothing about the author, as her story unfolds, the crushing honesty, beautiful writing and wicked humour captivated me like no book before. To be a woman is to balance between how much we want to have sex with a particular person and how our greatest fear is having sex against our will with a stranger. Uumlber den AutorrnrnBorn 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.

Her sharply funny, yet incisively honest examinations of her life experiences as a deeper rumination on the human condition have engrossed readers for many years… and Busy Being Free is no exception. Reading Busy Being Free isn’t like reading at all, in the sense that you will never look at how many pages you have left, or wonder whether this was the page you got stuck on last night before sleep. There’s dense, lovely prose in here, and it’s the type of memoir that doesn’t shy from embarrassing or unflattering details.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. When, after a life guided by romantic obsession, you decide to turn your back not only on marriage, but all romantic and sexual attachments?

Alluring, shocking, welcome and wonderful'Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day . This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Still, I really loved reading Emma’s honest, messy, beautiful thoughts on motherhood, aging, sex and more. References to Balenciaga shoes, Gucci scarves and the numerous celebrities with whom she has brushed shoulders abound – and are always pretentious. There are many parallels to my own life the last few years and to feel seen like that wasn’t something I was prepared for.It’s a beguiling form of storytelling, because it’s unpredictable, and it allows her to circle around the catalyst for the ending of her marriage, which only comes into focus late in the book. Emma Forrest’s second memoir, Busy Being Free is a vibrant and vivid account of both a crumbling Hollywood marriage and its aftermath, and the author’s life-long romantic obsession.

The main thing I respect about this book is the raw honesty and beauty emanating from literally feeling free enough to share her story in exactly the way she wanted to.

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? But the fact that she has written about this midlife excavation with such ferocity and frankness is cause for celebration.