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From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?) to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars) to becoming a mother (Birth is a beautiful thing, if your idea of beauty is a tractor pulling a combine harvester out of your vagina), Georgia Pritchett’s memoir takes us through a life lived anxiously. Filled with warmth and humour, insight and honesty, it is a brilliant meditation on how to live with worry. When (heavily) pressed for her favourite character, she settles on the youngest Roy son, Roman, played by Kieran Culkin. “I’m a big champion of his romance with Gerri,” she says, thrillingly, of his developing, deeply twisted relationship with the company’s steely general counsel. “It’s so funny and so sad.”
Although America has proved itself to be horrifyingly sexist and racist in the last four or five years, it seems it’s still less sexist and racist than TV comedy over here.” She mainly works in America now. Why would I want to write about a lot of white men who are horrible and ruining our world? But the challenge was to dig deep into their psyches, find the humanity in them and the compassion and reveal why they’re like they are.” MARTIN: So this book project began with a visit to your therapist. How do you feel about those anxieties these days?Georgia Pritchett said: ‘I am thrilled to be published by Faber. My English teacher is in despair. This has everything you could ever want in a book – hamsters, one-legged action men, the queen, budgies, questionable fashion choices, Robertson’s Giant Limb, the word ‘vagina’ and Jimmy Osmond. Like Middlemarch, it has secrets, it has lies and it has an ongoing custody battle between my dog and me for ownership of my Starsky doll.’ Always, she was the only woman in the room. “I used to say to the male writers I worked with, ‘where are the women?’ And they’d say, ‘well, you’re a trailblazer’. But no one was following me.” I absolutely bloody loved this book. Funny, relatable, easy to read, deep, shallow and everything in between.’ Philippa Perry PRITCHETT: I've just written a whole book about how I'm no good to it. I've made myself very clear.
From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child ( Were they comfy enough?), to embracing womanhood, ( One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars. It’s a beautiful moment) worry has accompanied her at every turn. British comedy writer Pritchett debuts with a collection of zippy and poignant anecdotes that describe living at the crossroads of imagination and anxiety...The delivery's delightful and as finely tuned as poetry or a tight stand-up routine. Her torment, as well as her joys, are readers' gain." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)They’re very tolerant of me being persistently female, they can deal with my chromosomes.” The UK TV, it seems, industry still can’t. She says that every single broadcaster has said to her at some point, “we’ve already got something with women in it.” She’s now working on a new TV comedy with Louis-Dreyfus that will feature a cast of 19 women. It’s the kind of project, she thinks, that would not get commissioned on British television.
Eventually my doctor referred me for some tests, I was sent to the INFERTILITY CLINIC. That seemed harsh. We didn’t know yet. It’s like calling the eye clinic the BLIND CLINIC. Or the cancer ward the DEATH CLINIC……….yes there is some wonderful Dark Humour here too! Very funny and honest and emotional...a really great read." - Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library WILDER: (As Willy Wonka, singing) There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll... The third series will air in October. At first she wasn’t sure she wanted to write on the show, about the dysfunctional, super-rich Roy family. A natural born worrywart, Georgia’s life has been defined by her quirky anxiety. During childhood, she was agitated about the monsters under her bed (Were they comfy enough?). Going into labor, she fretted about making a fuss (“Sorry to interrupt, but the baby is coming out of my body,” I said politely). Winning a prestigious award, she agonized over receiving free gifts after the ceremony (It was an excruciating experience. Mortifying).PRITCHETT: Yeah. Yeah. When I started, I thought, oh, there are no other women in the room, but you know, that's going to change soon. And then it was 25 years before I was ever in a writers room with another woman. When it finally happened, it was - I kind of didn't know what I'd been missing. I love the men I work with. They're all great. But to suddenly be in a room with people who kind of look a bit like you and have similar frames of reference or life experiences is utterly mind-blowing and so validating and so good for your self-esteem. MARTIN: It's easy to be self-aware when you're the only woman in a writer's room, I imagine. And that was the case for you... This memoir is a joyful reflection on just how to live – and sometimes even thrive (sometimes not) – with anxiety.
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