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

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While at times I was thrown by just how jumbled everything feels, and trying to connect these often disjointed fleeting moments together, I also felt in tune with everything that was written. 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? Told with warmth, pace and humour, it touches on dark areas while remaining both engaging and touching throughout. There are some great running jokes – Bob Dylan’s every appearance made me snort with laughter – but there is also real warmth in the descriptions.

My Mess is a Bit of a Life by Georgia Pritchett is probably the most fantastic memoir I have ever read. 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. the snippets of her life shared within this show us who she is and how she came to attain the success she rightfully does.Katherine Parkinson of the IT Crowd is the perfect narrator for this book, she truly acts the role she is portraying. Because everyone can sound morose, but not everyone can take the morose of your life and transform it into muppets of gluey laughter. 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. News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else.

It came across less like a memoir of one’s experiences with mental health and their methods of dealing with it, and more as a therapy journal which was published via the author’s prestige, rather than her talent.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. Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. This felt like reading a very chaotic manifestation of someone's thoughts, snippets of memories and emotions over the course of their life. Going into labor, she fretted about making a fuss ("Sorry to interrupt, but the baby is coming out of my body," I said politely).

Going into labor, she fretted about making a fuss (“Sorry to interrupt, but the baby is coming out of my body,” I said politely).This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving (sometimes not) – with anxiety. While she achieves professional success her personal life still throws her more curveballs - miscarriages, eventually having two sons (nicknamed 'The Speck' and 'The Scrap') who are diagnosed as being on the Autism spectrum, and then her life partner experiencing a potentially fatal health development. I thought it might have reflected the authors process with coming to terms with her anxiety with references to instances in her childhood before diagnosis.