{"product_id":"busy-being-free-starting-again-on-your-own-9781474620642","title":"Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own","description":"\u003cb\u003e'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson \u003cbr\u003e 'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of \u003ci\u003eManaging Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day' Sophie Heawood, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hungover Games\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When the dream life you have been working towards becomes something you must walk away from? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When you swap a Hollywood marriage and a LA mansion with waterside views, for a little attic flat shared only with your daughter, beneath the star-filled sky of deepest North London? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When you find yourself not lonely, but \u003ci\u003eelated\u003c\/i\u003e - elated to be alone with yourself, who you genuinely thought you might never get to see again? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When, after a life guided by romantic obsession, you decide to turn your back not only on marriage, but all romantic and sexual attachments?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in London, Emma Forrest began her writing career as a teenage columnist on the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, going on to have columns in The \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e. By thirty, she had published three novels and exited journalism to work in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Her memoir \u003ci\u003eYour Voice In My Head\u003c\/i\u003e is beloved by Nick Hornby, Dolly Alderton, Bryony Gordon, Emma Gannon, Florence Welch and Elizbeth Gilbert. Emma wrote and directed her first feature \u003ci\u003eUntogether\u003c\/i\u003e, which premiered at the Tribeca Film festival. Her most recent novel was the Radio 2 Book Club pick, \u003ci\u003eRoyals\u003c\/i\u003e, praised by Marian Keyes, David Nicholls and Emma Jane Unsworth.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"George Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicholson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50661063983378,"sku":"9781474620642","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b3a2b92a-d908-43c7-8f2b-8f398620a700.jpg?v=1733484651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/busy-being-free-starting-again-on-your-own-9781474620642","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}