The art of not falling apart / Christina Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Christina, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patterson, Christina, 1963-.

Patterson, Christina.

Women journalists--England--Biography.

Women journalists.

Life change events--England--Interviews.

Life change events.

England.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Interviews.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

344 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Atlantic Books, 2018.

Summary:

"We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don't find it all that funny when things go wrong. Most of us want love, a nice home, good work, and happy children. Many of us grew up with parents who made these things look relatively easy and assumed we would get them, too. So what do you do if you don't? What do you do when you feel you've messed it all up and your friends seem to be doing just fine? For Christina Patterson, it was her job as a journalist that kept her going through the ups and downs of life. And then she lost that, too. Dreaming of revenge and irritated by self-help books, she decided to do the kind of interviews she had never done before. The resulting conversations are surprising, touching and often funny. There's Ken, the first person to be publicly fired from a FTSE-100 board. There's Winston, who fell through a ceiling onto a purple coffin. There's Louise, whose baby was seriously ill, but who still worried about being fat. And through it all, there's Christina, eating far too many crisps as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life"--Book jacket.

Contents:

Prologue

Part I. Falling. Kafka, eat your heart out ; Anger is an energy ; Sex can be like broccoli ; Motherhood and Michelangelo ; Maternal deprivation ; Depression with a smile ; The body speaks ; A change in grammar ; Stuck ; Octopus pot

Part II. Gathering. A sentimental journey ; Coffee and cake ; A kind of sustaining grace

Part III. Fighting back. Sex and Borgen and ice cream ; Madonna of the rocks ; A life worth living ; A signal you send out ; Shooting the breeze ; A charmed life ; Fortysomething millennial ; The incredible machine ; Because I could not stop for death ; Stick your face in the sun ; A big cone

Epilogue.

Notes:

"A shockingly honest celebration of life as an adventure"--Cover.

ISBN:

9781786492746

1786492741

OCLC:

1006305666