Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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A sucker for a memoir – particularly one set between two cities in which I’ve lived – I went on to spend possibly the only sunny weekend we’ll have in Bondi this year spent at the beach with Emma’s book, and oh, what a joyful weekend it was. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

The thing found most painful about divorce is that there was no Mark spot at which to leave offerings….

Regardless of content a page turner deserves 5 stars because it was compelling enough to keep turning to find out what was next. It opens in London – where Forrest has moved to in the wake of her divorce from her Australian actor husband – when another mother visits her new flat and asks, “how did this happen to you? Lauded by everyone from Nigella Lawson to Lisa Taddeo, the title of Busy Being Free is taken from the song Cactus Tree by Joni Mitchell, in which Mitchell sings about an unnamed woman’s need for freedom and resistance to romantic commitment.

A teenage columnist for The Sunday Times, she became a music journalist and published her first novel, Namedropper, aged 22.

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