Coming Undone by Terri White. Browse The Guardian Bookshop for a big selection of Memoir books and the latest book reviews from The Guardian and The Observer Buy Coming Undone 780 by Terri White for only £13.04. Posted 18th Oct 2020 by radiosarahc 4 Comments on Book Review: Coming Undone by Terri White 52 Books Blog. Book Review: Coming Undone by Terri White. Dear Terri, I’ve just finished your heart-breaking memoir, a book so brutal and shocking, I’m not sure where to start with my thoughts.
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Aug 1, 2020 3 min read 3 min read. A powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest account of a life coming undone. To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio 's Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing.
Coming Undone By Terri White
Terri White's debut book, Coming Undone, A Memoir, is an extraordinary piece of writing that deals with child abuse, alcoholism, mental breakdown and much more. She and Mick talk about all of that and also about kids growing up in poverty and how that’s still a reality now, why trauma shouldn’t be couched in euphemisms and metaphors, how Terri's view of success has altered, and why the fuck she decided to record her own audiobook.
Over on this week's other Chops, Jen chats to Ashley 'Dotty' Charles, who tells her that while we might all be angry at the world, if you don't pick your battles, you can't win the war. The broadcaster and writer chats about her excellent (and much-needed) new book Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking, about the difference between productive and not-at-all-helpful indignation, and how some people have built a career from being outraged.
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‘A stunning memoir, hard reading in places, but it feels urgent and necessary . . . White writes like a blood-stained angel’
Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times
‘A breathtaking read . . . her honesty and her eloquence is the thing that makes it such a privilege to read . . . a raw, shocking, beautiful book’
DOLLY ALDERTON, The High Low
‘Coming Undone by Terri White is possibly the most affecting, moving memoir I've ever read. Painful and exquisite, her writing about how childhood trauma shaped her got to me in a very visceral way. It's a remarkable book‘
MARIAN KEYES
‘Raw and remarkable’
Guardian, Book of the Year
‘Powerful and moving, beautifully written, packed with stunning set-pieces and, I thought, a stinging-but-dazzling, complicated love-hate letter to NYC, and to how our dreams can too often deceive us. I found it bittersweet and raw, and radical as a memoir narrative: not so much a redemption tale as a chronicle of the real fallout of trauma: messy, difficult, intricate, infinite . . . [A] life-changing read’
EMMA JANE UNSWORTH
‘I didn’t put it down until finished. White’s extraordinary memoir is gripping, unflinchingly honest and written with great wit’
SALI HUGHES
‘Unique, painful, compelling’
AMY LIPTROT
‘Coming Undone is a beautiful, if uncomfortable, read and White writes with an unflinching, scalding frankness’
Irish Times
‘Written with power, love and heart, it’ll leave you wanting to read so much more by this extraordinary writer and woman’
Stylist
‘Raw, brutally honest and beautifully written, in Coming Undone Terri White describes the devastating damage done to her and its lasting impact on her mental health and wellbeing’
Sunday Express
‘Breathtaking . . . vibrant and visceral . . . The writing is so evocative, even funny at times, that you feel her pain, her hopelessness, and, ultimately, her remarkable strength of character. This is a book that gets into the marrow‘
SUSANNAH CAHALAN
‘A raw and uncompromising book that is as compelling as it is distressing . . . incredible . . . [White's] memoir reads like a manifesto for survival’
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