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

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I saw one review said that this was like bad standup, but for me, it was like I was going through her private Twitter where she was being silly and was oversharing about her life. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Filled with warmth and humour, insight and honesty, it is a brilliant meditation on how to live with worry. Succession, just happens to be one of my favourite shows, I have always thought “this is so brilliantly written” – well now I know who to credit. Given my book obsession (hardly a secret), it is quite rare that I pick up a newly released book in my genres in Waterstones that I haven’t heard of before.

She also deprecates her loved ones, such as her partner “The Moose” and her two little boys “Scrap and Speck”. Georgia invented a superhero alter ego and had an imaginary friend, Samantha, who was never keen on spending any time with her. If you have anxiety in any form, the sentiments will all seem so familiar – except narrated by someone really, really funny.Her writing and production credits include Veep, Have I Got News for You, Smack the Pony, Miranda, The Thick of It and many more. 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.

Beginning with memories from far back in her childhood through her teenage years up to the present, Pritchett strings together anecdotes and musings about her life. This is something I didn’t think would be possible when I compare my life (pottering round in Cheshire) with hers (pottering round the White House with celebrities). From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child, to embracing womanhood, to being offered free gifts after an award ceremony, worry has accompanied her at every turn. Essentially, the book is written as Pritchett’s explanation to her psychiatrist about all the things she is anxious about.Katherine Parkinson of the IT Crowd is the perfect narrator for this book, she truly acts the role she is portraying. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. 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.

Told with warmth, pace and humour, it touches on dark areas while remaining both engaging and touching throughout.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. I highly recommend the audiobook version because the narration was so natural, it was like Georgia Pritchett was having a conversation with you (even though it was narrated by someone else).

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety is a compilation of her concerns, written down in response to a suggestion by a therapist, whose help she sought to address her anxiety. Going into labor, she fretted about making a fuss ("Sorry to interrupt, but the baby is coming out of my body," I said politely). I hadn’t heard of Georgia Pritchett before, although I now feel ashamed to say that given her impressive CV writing for pretty much every comedy show I could think of from ‘Spitting Image’ to ‘Veep’, ‘Have I Got News For You? She has suffered some serious loss and faced several challenges but brings humor to sharing many of her experiences. 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.

In therapy, in full confession mode, the author free associates her way to the very last lines, and by the time we got there I realized I had laughed out loud many, many times, gotten quiet and reflective a few time, sobbed once with heartfelt love for the beauty of the moment she'd described, and then was gently read out of her book with her last line, full of appreciation for all that she'd shared with me.