This book contains a series of vignettes depicting and inflating (no doubt) some of the most absurd elements of Pritchett’s life. From the earliest recollection, we have feelings of anxiety and fear, as well as a few laughs along the way.

Some of Pritchett's descriptions of her lowest moments were deeply moving and some of the most realistic descriptions of depression that I have ever read. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes.While not read by Georgia herself, Katherine Parkinson did a good job as narrator of this audiobook. Essentially, the book is written as Pritchett’s explanation to her psychiatrist about all the things she is anxious about. The book begins as a recollection of a childhood filled with anxiety and grows into an exploration of the joys and intense challenges of professional and family life (and of course their inevitable intersections). Her shyness made speaking problematic, became familiar with writing haikus at her offbeat school, and went to Scotland on family holidays so that their West Highland terrier, Flo, could get back to her roots.

I thought most of the snippets were trying too hard to be funny (NOT succeeding), trying to be offbeat or trite (worrying about being single, dying alone, finding her body weeks later with her cat …). This original, fun, smart, comic and witty memoir is the result, it is largely in the form of anecdotes, vignettes, and thoughts, covering her childhood, where her anxious nature is apparent, family, school, college, personal relationships and her stellar professional career. to embracing womanhood, ( One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars.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).