Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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Her most recent novel was the Radio 2 Book Club pick, Royals , praised by Marian Keyes, David Nicholls and Emma Jane Unsworth. 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.

I loved Emma’s feature on Vogue: Getting Divorced Made Me Reassess My Entire Wardrobe, and why not find out which eight books Emma Forrest would take with her to a desert island? 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. About the Author: Born 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.

Especially frustrating is that there’s no growth in this respect- she decides to be celibate for five years, and then needs her ex-husband to draw her out of her obsession with her new boy toy once she’s ready to date again. I don't think most adult people are reacting to looks, clothes and measurements to the obsessive extent the author seems to think. Emma Forrest is a master of voicing those human instincts and thoughts which feel too murky or ingrained to be articulated, and yet here she is doing so with enviable elegance on every page -- Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. I took comfort in many of the things she revealed she processed post divorce and her exploration of shame and disappointment. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

I was encapsulated in this world Emma describes so beautifully and looked forward to reading more every night before bed. 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. Having said that, there were parts of the book that I really enjoyed and that also made me reflect on my own experiences in a new light. Part of the in-built narrative in her leaving him and moving from LA is the suggestion that she will now be financially less well off.