"Powerful and moving, provocative and heartfelt, brutal and loving, memories scatter the pages and allow you to see into Brenda Fricker’s soul."
This memoir feels so beautifully authentic, it cuts through frippery and fancy to the very heart of Brenda Fricker. ‘A life in fragments’ perfectly describes the contents, her life hasn’t been made into a story, instead each brutally honest fragment (from a few lines to a few pages) builds intricate layer upon layer of memories and feelings.
Her childhood caught me, held me, with its memories of smell and touch before giving me a shove into her older years of acting, depression, more violence, and relationships. I can’t remember ever feeling this way about a memoir before, so connected to the pages yet aware of self, of thoughts spiralling and spinning from her words.
At times I felt an intimate connection, in other moments my heart broke at the sharpness, the vivid intensity, the pain. No matter what she reveals, she remains vital and vibrant, quick yet thoughtful. There is deep compassion here, for others and hopefully for herself as she details trauma, sexual violence, and mental illness.
I felt really moved by this book, while there is pain, there is also a sense of mischief, of wit, of wonder. Heartrending yet inspiring, fractured yet healing, She Died Young sings with an intense energy, and joins our LoveReading Star Books.
She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect, madness, art and raw honesty unite. It is as far from a 'celebrity memoir' as you can get.
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She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect, madness, art and raw honesty unite. It is as far from a 'celebrity memoir' as you can get.
She Died Young features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Star Books, Biographies & Autobiographies, Memoirs, Autobiography: general, Film, TV and Radio industries, Individual actors and performers
Paperback, Hardback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
She Died Young was written by Brenda Fricker and published by Apollo an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
She Died Young has 272 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
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