This Is Not a Pity Memoir
Description
What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you're nothing but a stranger?
What do you do when your history together is gone?
How do you prove you're not an imposter in your own life?
When the partner of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan abruptly collapsed from a mysterious illness, doctors were concerned that he would not survive. Then, six months later, Jacob woke from his coma, to the delight and relief of his family and friends--except this proved to be anything but a Hollywood ending. Because to Jacob, the woman standing at his bedside, who had cared for him all these months, was not his partner. Not his children's mother. Not the woman he loved. Sure, she looked like his Abi, but this was an imposter, living someone else's life.
Finding herself dropped into a real-life night-mare seemingly ripped from the pages of a thriller, Abi must find a way to hang on to not only their past but also their future together, before it slips away from them both. With grace, an irresistible sense of humor and refreshingly raw honesty, This Is Not a Pity Memoir grapples with a journey through fear and redemption few should have to face.
What do you do when you are losing your love?
You don't write a pity memoir.
You write a love story.
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About the Author
ABI MORGAN is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour (Paines Plough), Tiny Dynamite (Traverse), Tender (Hampstead Theatre), Fugee (National Theatre), 27 (National Theatre of Scotland), Love Song (Frantic Assembly), and The Mistress Contract (Royal Court Theatre). Her television work includes My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami - The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour, River and The Split. Her film writing credits include Brick Lane, Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and Suffragette. She has a number of films currently in development and has won a number of awards, including Baftas and an Emmy for her film and TV work.
Reviews
There are no words. I was stunned, in every sense, by this heart-breaking, profound and deeply human memoir. Like CS Lewis on grief, Morgan finds truth and beauty in the darkest places. I feel changed by this book. I will never forget it.--Meg Mason, author of Sorrow & Bliss
From the very first line I couldn't stop reading. Abi invites you in to what feels almost like a thriller, then quickly a heart bursting romantic comedy and a devastating drama. Even if this was fiction it would be impossible to stop thinking about this book long after reading. The fact that this is Abi's real life experience brought forth as this astonishing piece of writing is truly breathtaking. It's arrestingly honest, funny, profound and exquisitely written. I could not have loved it more. --Carey Mulligan
"A candid, intimate memoir of a harrowing time."--Kirkus Reviews
"Gripping, funny and always honest." --David Nicholls
"The kind of book you will find yourself saying urgently, over and over, to friends. "Have you read it? Have you read it?--Caitlin Moran
"A mash-up of all the things I love in a book - honesty, comedy, pathos and what- happens-next. It's brutal - in a good way - but above all else it's a testament to kindness, stickability and enduring love." --Kit de Waal
An extraordinary tale told extraordinarily well.--Marina Hyde
"A profound look at the complexities of love, even at its most mundane. Equal parts savage and sublime, this obliterates notions of memory and intimacy with grace and precision....[A] raw and incandescent debut." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Morgan doesn't, to put it mildly, go in for self-pity. Her book, even when things are at their most bleak, is both very funny and as propulsive as a thriller, ticking along in an adrenalised real time, impossible to put down. --The Guardian
