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belinda1979's review against another edition
5.0
Told honestly and openly about her highs and lows, makes a change from all the sugar coated bullshit biographies that are out there
booksevereads's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
nickedkins's review against another edition
4.0
Lily Allen is inconsistently insightful throughout this memoir. She's very good at recognising why she's feeling and reacting certain ways - for example, she stopped hugging her mum when her first boyfriend met her need to be touched, which was a conscious choice. She's less adept, though, at judging other people's reactions to her. She literally writes "[t]hat's how I got my first record deal - it was an act of nepotism, pure and simple," and then gets confused and defensive when people say she had a leg up.
It's not her fault she had a famous dad; if she just acknowledged the advantage, the critics would probably drop it. As it stands, it remains an odd blind spot.
On the whole, this was a clear-eyed look at an interesting life.
It's not her fault she had a famous dad; if she just acknowledged the advantage, the critics would probably drop it. As it stands, it remains an odd blind spot.
On the whole, this was a clear-eyed look at an interesting life.