Everyday Madness
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‘The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.’
After the death of her partner of 32 years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and superstition in which sanity felt elusive. The dead of prior generations loomed large and haunting. Then, too, the cultural and political moment seemed to collude with her condition: everywhere people were dislocated and angry.
In this electrifying and brave examination of an ordinary enough death and its aftermath, Appignanesi uses all her evocative and analytic powers to scrutinize her own and our society’s experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives.
With searing honesty, lashed by humour, she navigates us onto the terrain of childhood, the way it forms our feelings of love and hate, and steers us towards a less tumultuous version of the everyday.
This audiobook may be short, but life, death, madness, love and grandchildren are all there — seen through the eyes of a writer who is ever aware of the historical and current vagaries of woman’s condition.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A riveting and devastating explication of grief. This account of coming to pieces and ultimately coming to a measure of peace offers readers an in-depth view of how and why the psyche responds as it does. I really didn’t want this narrative to end. I was ultimately relieved at the turn the author takes. Delighted to have found this book and the brilliant writer through Twitter. Brava!