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

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Going into labor, she fretted about making a fuss (“Sorry to interrupt, but the baby is coming out of my body,” I said politely). Przy tym humor (bywa że ciemny i gorzki) umyka, trudno się utożsamić, nawet w całkiem bliższych tematycznie i "lękowo" anegdotach.

But there are times Pritchett reaches into more serious themes such as her own mental health, the me too movement, suicide ideation and the time her school friends made a teacher cry (that was sad). She also deprecates her loved ones, such as her partner “The Moose” and her two little boys “Scrap and Speck”. This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving sometimes not – with anxiety. Though I don't have the successful career she has had, a lot of it resonated as she talked about her childhood, family, school, college, personal relationships and professional career and anxiety weaving its way through all of those.With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. She is remarkably efficient with her words, which means this memoir is delightfully moreish and fast paced. Her father is referred to as The Patriarchy, and her mother, The Witch, as a 4 year old Georgia thought God was Jimmy Osmond, and all the stories she was writing featured baby budgies falling from their nests and unable to find their way home.

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. This memoir is a joyful reflection on just how to live – and sometimes even thrive (sometimes not) – with anxiety. Winning a prestigious award, she agonized over receiving free gifts after the ceremony (It was an excruciating experience. This has everything you could ever want in a book – hamsters, one-legged action men, the queen, budgies, questionable fashion choices, Robertson’s Giant Limb, the word ‘vagina’ and Jimmy Osmond. I had no idea who Georgia Pritchett was, but I quickly grew to like her through her very relatable musings in this unconventional memoir.

Her writing and production credits include Veep, Have I Got News for You, Smack the Pony, Miranda,The Thick of It and many more. Georgia invented a superhero alter ego and had an imaginary friend, Samantha, who was never keen on spending any time with her. I also learned, that while teeth things in books are triggering for me, someone anxious talking about their teeth problems and scary situation only heightened that feeling, so if you have anxiety around some of the main topics of the stories, they might be harder to take. I always love reading books about anxiety and depression, as it makes me feel that I am not alone when I suffer.