Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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Solitude is not a bad thing - it forces introspection and reflection, and gives the opportunity for one to find what they really want (need? When I was a teenager, one man who – and I use my words very carefully here – had sex with me is now dead, and I know him to have been a very bad man, despite what the obituaries said. What follows is a stunning account of solitude and romance, grief, marriage and divorce, and a candid look at the paths we take when life doesn’t turn out quite how we expected it would. Alluring, shocking, welcome and wonderful' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women From the author of Your Voice in My Head and Royals comes a beautiful, breath-taking, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again.

A beautiful, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again. Born in London, Emma Forrest began her writing career as a teenage columnist on the Sunday Times, going on to have columns in The Guardian, the Independent and Elle.Emma Forrest’s memoir opens with a question from a north London mum who took one look at Forrest’s flat and asked: “How did this happen to you? I wonder what it is like to live with a mind like Forrest’s, which makes such shooting connections between things and sees a great pattern in it all. But this is an exquisitely female perspective, I was enraptured by it’s revelatory and poignant glory. I think she might be a genius'
Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games

'I've really never read about sex and been so sharply reminded about how much it is tied up with the fundamentals of being a woman'
Minnie Driver

From the author of Your Voice in My Head and Royals comes a beautiful, breath-taking, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again. When you find yourself not lonely, but elated – elated to be alone with yourself, who you genuinely thought you might never get to see again?

Bad Wolf chief executive, Jane Tranter, said: “Emma is one of the boldest, brightest voices of today’s generation.But she goes on to say: “The interesting part is that I voluntarily kept seeing him for a few weeks. However, Forrest’s misery about her “small top-floor flat” seems trivial when she flaunts the wealth she continues to enjoy, including a custom-made spiral staircase, with a cut-out design to “cast light around the small space”. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I've really never read about sex and been so sharply reminded about how much it is tied up with the fundamentals of being a woman.

They can stay a decade or a year or six months or three months or one night and what they saw with you will not go away just because they have. It took away from the real life situations she was describing rather than add anything to them and this grated on me at times. I wonder what it is like to live with a mind like Forrest's, which makes such shooting connections between things and sees a great pattern in it all. the fact that she has written about this mid life excavation with such ferocity and frankness is cause for celebration.As well as being elegantly written, Busy Being Free is eminently readable - a treasure trove of profound insights into love, lust and female desire.