Life in Pieces – review (ad)
I was kindly given an electronic copy of Life in Pieces by Dawn O’Porter in exchange for an honest review*.
Life in Pieces
Life In Pieces book blurb
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of So Lucky, comes a bold, brilliant, and totally hilarious book about life in lockdown and 2020
My overall thoughts on Life In Pieces
I think it’s safe to say many of us have ridden the coronacoaster of emotions during the covid-19 pandemic where the world ground to a halt and life was extremely different – lockdown was like something many of us have never experienced and a hugely testing time. I feel like Dawn has documented this coronacoaster of emotions better than I ever could and I’m a little bit envious of that!
I really enjoy Dawn’s writing style but this is different to her usual novels as this is real it’s raw and it’s something that we’re actually still living through.
This book is made up of blog posts that she’s written that are more like letters or diary entries documenting her life through lockdown. Of course it’s written brilliantly and has so many genuine laugh out loud moments it’s captivating.
Back in February prior to lockdown the larger than life and best friend of Dawn, Caroline Flack died and her funeral was merely a week or so before lockdown came into force. Dawn discusses her grief throughout this book and shares some wonderful happier memories of Caroline.
It’s the party house. Now it’s the farty house. Is a line that I absolutely loved and shines a light on how life really does change once you have kids!
I loved the breakdown of her Whatsapp groups. We’ve all got different groups for family, work, friends, for our kids etc. Very relatable.
“When you share yourself with other women and you allow them to do the same, you find your power.” Love this quote and want this to be one of my new mantras.
My female friends are my emotional support animals she writes. Same here!
Godzilla was back in my knickers is how she described a particular painful period and she is soo right!
I really enjoyed this book and getting to know how Dawn, her husband, boys and pets made it through lockdown and all of the other tribulations surrounding them in America.
It isn’t all doom and gloom there’s lots of humour and positivity within this book too. Well worth a read. Thoroughly enjoyed.
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