This is Not a Pity Memoir

The heartbreaking and life-affirming bestseller from the creator of ERIC

By: Abi Morgan

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Paperback | 12 May 2022 | Edition Number 1

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An ordinary day.
The end of ordinary life.

One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list - drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for twenty years lying on the bathroom floor.

And nothing would ever be the same again.

But this is not a pity memoir. It's about meeting your person. And crazed late night Google trawls. It's about the things you wished you'd said to the person that matters then wildly over-sharing with the barista who doesn't know you at all. It's about sushi and the wrong shoes and the moments you want to shout 'cut'. It's about the silence when you are lost in space and the importance of family and parties and noise.

It's the difference between surviving and living.
It's a reminder that, even in the worst times, there is light ahead.

It's a love story.

About the Author

Abi Morgan is a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning screenwriter whose credits include Sex Traffic, The Hour, Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette. She is the creator and writer of BBC drama, The Split. This is her first book.

Industry Reviews

Very moving but never sentimental, tough but never cynical . . . gripping, funny and always honest

I wept. I laughed. I dared to hope. I felt my heart crack. This book is life. It is exceptional

An extraordinary story told extraordinarily well. I don't know how Abi Morgan has managed to live through all this, let alone write such a fascinating, heartbreaking yet frequently funny book about it. It is so gripping I honestly couldn't put it down

Funny and brutally honest . . . an absolute insight for those of us lucky enough to never know life like this

Incredibly powerful, moving, funny, honest & brave. I LOVED it

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