Finding Audrey

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I live with anxiety and I can relate to pretty much everything that the main character goes through, Sophie really has it. This book is a sorry excuse for representation and I can not believe how atrociously the author handled this topic.

C’est un livre touchant, qui se lit vite , mais ne vous y trompez pas , il traite de ces graves problèmes avec une grande acuité. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Sophie wrote her first novel under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, at the tender age of 24, whilst she was working as a financial journalist.

I found it didn't really get going for a while and that sometimes the focus was more so on the brother than on Audrey. But then again, I had issues with it that I was hoping wouldn't arise but unfortunately I couldn't ignore.

One of my main concerns when I started this book was that it would turn into another "love cures mental illness" tale.The story is about a girl named Audrey who is suffering from a mental illness due to some incident in her school. Thanks to the friendship of her brother and her brother’s friend Linus, Audrey learns to grow as a person. Our anxieties will always be there, they are a part of life but as we recover, we learn how to deal with our anxieties more and I wish YA authors understood this better. The ‘big reveal’ which has been eluded to throughout the book to build intrigued was odd and an unusual choice by the author to present it the way she did (don’t want to reveal it). Romance is already so toxic in a lot of media forms and the idea that a romantic interest (in this case, like most cases, a man) can fix something as ingrained as anxiety is a terrifying and damaging idea to be perpetuating to young girls.

She almost never goes out, doesn't talk to new people, and finds making eye contact to be nearly impossible. But if you try to fight Felix, all you get is wails and screams and tantrums, and it all gets more and more stressy.

So this scenario would be a PERFECT place for Audrey's anxiety because it would show that yes it's a real thing with real symptoms BUT, RPGs are a good place to lessen it. You can focus on someone a hundred feet away, through a whole bunch of people, and they know you're you're looking at them. I loved how this novel was also centred around family; parents and siblings and the bonds and fights they all share. The music on the sound system is too loud and the conversations around me are hitting my eardrums with a force that makes me wince, but I’m going with it instead of resisting. The reader gets to ‘see’ the documentary through snippets of film script and this was an exciting new twist for me.

A few reviews have stated that her anxiety was "cured" too quickly, and whilst I agree she made a large amount of progress in a short period of time, she also then relapsed again. I definitely recommend it to all Sophie Kinsella fans as well as readers who want to try her writing but aren't interested (yet) in her adult books. Audrey's mother is a neurotic Daily Mail fan who constantly tries to improve her family's lifestyle after reading articles like "The Eight Signs Your Child is Addicted to Computer Games".

Below us, on the front lawn, Frank is scampering about in his Big Bang Theory T-shirt, clutching his head and gibbering with panic. I'm a fairly easy person to make laugh, so I don't know how credible my word is, but I found this book nothing short of hilarious. Audrey’s family was so lovable and realistic, kind of crazy at times but that made them even more relatable. It follows Audrey, a young girl with social anxiety who always wears dark glasses even inside the house. She can talk through her fears with him and he gently challenges her to push her boundaries and comfort zone a bit.