This is Not a Pity Memoir
- Author Abi Morgan
- Narrator Fiona Button
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 7 hours and 44 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Coping with chronic or long-term illness or conditions, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues, Memoirs.
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What to expect
The end of ordinary life.
One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list - drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for twenty years lying on the bathroom floor.
And nothing would ever be the same again.
But this is not a pity memoir. It's about meeting your person. And crazed late night Google trawls. It's about the things you wished you'd said to the person that matters then wildly over-sharing with the barista who doesn't know you at all. It's about sushi and the wrong shoes and the moments you want to shout 'cut'. It's about the silence when you are lost in space and the importance of family and parties and noise.
It's the difference between surviving and living.
It's a reminder that, even in the worst times, there is light ahead.
It's a love story.
(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
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Took my breath away. . . I sobbed and laughed and then sobbed again. I think it puts life into perspective but also, by being a love story, it defies many of the norms. Morgan’s unique voice rings out and she is a great companion throughout
I-paper, Books of the Year -
Extraordinary…utterly compelling and so honestly told
Nigella Lawson -
Every once in a while, a book comes along that causes me to undergo a genuine shift in perspective. Abi Morgan’s This is Not a Pity Memoir had exactly this effect . . . heart breaking, profound and even funny
Spectator -
Both very funny and as propulsive as a thriller…impossible to put down.
Observer -
There is not a trace of self-pity in Abi Morgan’s heartbreaking memoir . . . full of humour, urgency and pathos, written in a staggeringly frank, intimate voice
Independent -
Uplifting and powerful…highly recommended
Woman's Weekly
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