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A review by beate251
The Truth About Lisa Jewell by Will Brooker
informative
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
1.0
The only reason I picked this book up was because Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite authors. I wish I hadn't.
This feels like an overblown essay or a dissertation, padded out with lots of quotes from Lisa's books. It's self-indulgent flannel that tells me nothing about Lisa Jewell as a person. The title is awful, and quite frankly, it is weird for a man to write about a female author who successfully changed genres from what was then called chick lit and is now called romance, to psychological thrillers/family dramas. I started skipping whole pages once he started going on about Martin Amis.
Don't bother.
This feels like an overblown essay or a dissertation, padded out with lots of quotes from Lisa's books. It's self-indulgent flannel that tells me nothing about Lisa Jewell as a person. The title is awful, and quite frankly, it is weird for a man to write about a female author who successfully changed genres from what was then called chick lit and is now called romance, to psychological thrillers/family dramas. I started skipping whole pages once he started going on about Martin Amis.
Don't bother.