Your Voice in My Head, Emma Forrest
Your Voice in My Head, Emma Forrest
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Your Voice in My Head

Author: Emma Forrest

Narrator: Emma Forrest

Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2011

Synopsis

Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist—a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life. She was on the brink of drowning, but she was still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family. Reeling from the premature death of a man who had become her anchor after she turned up on his doorstep, she was adrift. And when her all-consuming romantic relationship also fell apart, Emma was forced to cling to the page for survival and regain her footing on her own terms. A modern-day fairy tale, Your Voice in My Head is a stunning memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit. In her unique voice, Emma Forrest explores the highs and lows of love and the heartbreak of loss.

About Emma Forrest

Emma Forrest is the author of several novels and editor of the nonfiction essay collection Damage Control. Raised in London, she now lives in Los Angeles, where she is a screenwriter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valentina

Oh Lordy. This book should be retitled: Your Voice In My Head: a Humblebrag in 224 pages. Allow me to paraphrase... I am so messed up, it almost obscures how precocious and brilliant I am. I am full of self-loathing and body image issues in spite of being a beautiful, fashionable waif. I have terribl......more

Goodreads review by christa

My boyfriend had a writing professor in college who said: "Don't write about your dead grandma because I don't want to give you a D on a story about your dead grandma." I should maybe alter that to: "Don't read memoirs with mentally ill protagonists because I don't want to give someone a D on a story......more

Goodreads review by Alexis

Dear Sweet Jesus. This book was a car wreck. I gave it two stars because I literally couldn't stop reading it, even though I wanted to. Emma Forrest is a journalist who writes about celebrity. She's also bipolar, and cuts herself. In this book, she writes about her suicide attempts, numerous boyfrie......more

Quotes

“Emma Forrest is an incredibly gifted writer, who crafted the living daylights out of every sentence in this unforgettable memoir. I can’t remember the last time I ever read such a blistering, transfixing story of obsession, heartbreak, and slow, stubborn healing.” Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love

“A brilliantly realized memoir of surprise and startling beauty.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A testament to Forrest’s skill…[she is] a talented, intense woman.” New York Times Book Review

“Emma Forrest reads her memoir with wide shifts in tone that represent her emotional swings as she pursues a path towards mental health.” AudioFile

“Emma Forrest is as hilarious as she is wise. And did I mention generous? Unlike most memoirs this is not merely a song of oneself, but a debt of gratitude repaid to an incredible man—her psychiatrist. Your Voice In My Head is touching, funny, and very real.” Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story

“I read Your Voice in My Head in one sitting, by turns laughing out loud, gasping with recognition, and fighting to hold back tears—and wondering, of course, who is Emma Forrest and how is she able to write with such enormous wit and bravery about subjects most folks can’t muster the courage to bring up in conversation: suicide, self-loathing, loneliness, depression, mania, and, most of all, love inexplicably lost.” Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age

“Forrest’s insightful and snappily-written account of her lengthy battles against depression, self-harm, damaging relationships, and potato-based fried snacks is heartfelt and touching and surprisingly funny.” Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine

“A bittersweet love letter…It is a brilliant read.” Sunday Times Style (London)

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