'In Bath I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an empty blue sky that reflected nothing of the chaos in the world. Below the fields flashed the seaweed-green of a London train and I imagined my former life at the end of it but felt more like it had been tied to the tracks and careered over at 100 mph.'
After a wild decade of hedonistic city life that veered violently into trauma, Lucy Holden was thrown back down the ladder to her parentsasquo; house in a pandemic which paused the parties and forced her to ask herself how sheosquo;d become who shelsquo;d become? Grown-up, broken-down, completely lost, then locked-in dash; Lucy realises she canisquo;t make it up as she goes along forever and instead has to confront the darkness sheisquo;s been running from her entire adult life.
In this raw, hilarious, sometimes filthy, often emotional memoir about a young woman asking herself how long she has until her act cracks completely, the mental health of a fast-paced world that never sits still is called into question. With charm and wit, Lucid addresses what it means to be young in todayksquo;s society edash; and where we can go from here.
