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Synopsis
‘A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir’ - Nina Stibbe
'Deft, witty and profound . . . had me turning the pages all night' - Jessie Burton
Jean Hannah Edelstein was looking for love on OKCupid the night she lost her father. She had recently moved back to America to be closer to her parents, leaving behind the good friends, bad dates and questionable career moves that defined her twenties. But six weeks after she arrived in New York, her father died of cancer – and six months after that she learnt she had inherited the gene that determined his fate.
Heartbreaking, hopeful and disarmingly funny, This Really Isn’t About You is a book about finding your way in life, even when life has other plans.
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Review
Deft, witty and profound . . . Jean Hannah Edelstein's writing glows with a peerless clarity that had me turning the pages all night. A stunning book. (Jessie Burton)
One of the most brilliant writers of her generation, as witty, wry and unsentimental as Nora Ephron . . . a magnificent book, about families, mortality, love and the hard, necessary work of becoming an adult. (Olivia Laing)
Never sentimental, this memoir is by turns extremely funny and extremely sad; Edelstein is a wonderful writer, and this is a stunning book. (Stylist)
A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir. Unsentimental but heartbreaking, the voice – true and clear. Brilliant. (Nina Stibbe)
A very funny and charming and bittersweet book. (Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up)
One of Red’s favourite essayists, Jean Hannah Edelstein’s memoir is a work of deceptive simplicity and heart-crushing truths . . . by the end, you’ll never want to let her go. (Sarra Manning Red)
Jean Hannah Edelstein is an exceptional writer, simultaneously wry and heartbreaking. (Nikesh Shukla)
It hits you with the truth, it reads as enthrallingly as fiction can, and it leaves you changed (Elle)
This Really Isn't About You is wry and poignant and true, and I loved it. (Julie Cohen)
The book to read if you’re a Nora Ephron fangirl . . . Jean Hannah tells her story of returning to the U.S after years living abroad, upon hearing the news of her Father’s terminal illness diagnosis. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny; always thought-provoking (The Anna Edit)
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A disarmingly tender, funny and honest memoir of grief, love and finding your way in life.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1509863818
- ISBN 13 9781509863815
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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