Coming Undone A Memoir
- 15 Apr 2021
- 9781786896810
- £9.99
- 256 pp
- 129×198mm
- 2 Jul 2020
- 9781786896797
- £7.99
- 256 pp
- 2 Jul 2020
- 9781786896803
- £25
- 6 hrs 37 min
In a few words
A powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest account of a life coming undone
In a few words
A powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest account of a life coming undone
In a few words
A powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest account of a life coming undone
A stunning memoir, hard reading in places, but it feels urgent and necessary . . . White writes like a blood-stained angel
Cathy Rentzenbrink
The TimesA 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 LowA stunning memoir, hard reading in places, but it feels urgent and necessary . . . White writes like a blood-stained angel
Cathy Rentzenbrink
The TimesA 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 LowA stunning memoir, hard reading in places, but it feels urgent and necessary . . . White writes like a blood-stained angel
Cathy Rentzenbrink
The TimesA 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 LowMore about
the book
‘BREATHTAKING’ Dolly Alderton, ‘REMARKABLE’ Marian Keyes, ‘LIFE-CHANGING’ Emma Jane Unsworth, ‘COMPELLING’ Amy Liptrot, ‘EXTRAORDINARY’ Sali Hughes
To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream – living in New York City, with a top job editing a major magazine. In reality, she was struggling with the trauma of an abusive childhood and rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a psychiatric ward.
Coming Undone is Terri’s story of her unravelling, and her precarious journey back from a life in pieces.
More about
the book
‘BREATHTAKING’ Dolly Alderton, ‘REMARKABLE’ Marian Keyes, ‘LIFE-CHANGING’ Emma Jane Unsworth, ‘COMPELLING’ Amy Liptrot, ‘EXTRAORDINARY’ Sali Hughes
To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream – living in New York City, with a top job editing a major magazine. In reality, she was struggling with the trauma of an abusive childhood and rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a psychiatric ward.
Coming Undone is Terri’s story of her unravelling, and her precarious journey back from a life in pieces.
More about
the book
‘BREATHTAKING’ Dolly Alderton, ‘REMARKABLE’ Marian Keyes, ‘LIFE-CHANGING’ Emma Jane Unsworth, ‘COMPELLING’ Amy Liptrot, ‘STUNNING’ Cathy Rentzenbrink, ‘EXTRAORDINARY’ Sali Hughes
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 Terri’s documentation of her unravelling, and her precarious navigation back from a life in pieces.
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
Raw and remarkable
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
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
Raw and remarkable
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
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
Raw and remarkable
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
Terri White
View profileTerri White is a writer, broadcaster and the former Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, for which she was named Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors). She additionally previously edited some of the biggest publications in the UK and US, including Time Out New York and ShortList, and has also written for the Guardian, Grazia and the Big Issue.
@Terri_White
Terri White
View profileTerri White is a writer, broadcaster and the Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, for which she was named Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors). She previously edited some of the biggest publications in the UK and US, including Time Out New York and ShortList, and has also written for the Guardian, Grazia and the Big Issue.
@Terri_White
Terri White
View profileTerri 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
