Coming Undone

A Memoir

Coming Undone
Terri White
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
15 Apr 2021 UK
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9781786896810
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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. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her. As well as growing up in a household in poverty, Terri endured sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a number of her mother' s partners. Her success defied all expectations, but the greater the disparity between her outer achievements and inner demons, the more she struggled to hold everything together. Coming Undone is the story of Terri' s unravelling, and her precarious navigation back from a life in pieces.
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 * * Twitter * * 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 Rarely does a memoir find such beauty in the worst experiences. Terri' s story is as bruising as her instinct to survive and excel is astonishing. This book will stay in my head and my heart -- DAVID WHITEHOUSE In anyone else' s hands, Coming Undone might be an unbearably harrowing story of trauma and abuse, but Terri White finds a way to craft a compelling and heart-rending story from the pain she has endured for so long. Her exquisite writing drives the story ever onwards, keeping the reader close to her at all times, even when she is lost in the darkest of places. The story of a fragile phoenix dragging itself out from the ashes, this book is visceral and brutal and beautiful and needed -- LINDSEY KELK
Terri White is Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, having previously edited some of the most read titles in the UK and US, including Time Out New York and Shortlist, where she was named Men' s Magazine Editor of the Year. She has also written for the Guardian and the Pool. @Terri_White
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781786896810
Published: 15 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 256

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