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Life in Pieces: From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of So Lucky, comes a bold, brilliant, and hilarious book to curl up with 2021

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She purposely inhabits her mother’s style. “Since I’ve become a mum, I wear a lot of Eighties clothes, and I feel like I embody her sometimes in that way. I’ll get this weird feeling – ooh, that was almost a sensory memory of her – that wafts over me and disappears again. I know what I’m doing when I wear my Eighties clothes. I’m channelling her.” Not that she didn’t cherish the time with the boys, intense though it was. Her book is a paean to what is truly important. “When nothing is happening, so much is actually happening if you care to look. Emotions are bigger than ever.”

As soon as I saw the many photo images of them both... I immediately recognized Dawn’s funny-guy-comic-talented actor husband, Chris O’Porter, from several offbeat great movies he stars in. I related to how grief is a part of Dawn’s life ( her very closest friend committed suicide), my grief is associated with our older daughter.... The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot’s curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached. O’Porter is a warm, bright, sunshine-filled person. She and her sister Jane were raised by their aunt (an interior designer and beekeeper) and uncle (a pilot) in Guernsey, after her mother died aged 36, days before her seventh birthday. Following her parents’ divorce when she was one, the sisters and their mother moved to the island. “My dad stayed up in Scotland but we’d go up for all the holidays.” The book just screams ME, ME, ME as I read and I couldn't find a way to connect meaningfully with the self obsessed entries.who was her ACTOR husband?”....(he is mention in a funny scene) > “no, my husband doesn’t need to signup for your acting class”, Dawn tells a stranger, “he is doing alright; he is Chris O’Porter”. Her writing style flows effortlessly that it feels like talking to a friend with a glass of wine in hand and having one of those candid off the record chats.

Parts of the book were funny and slightly relatable, such as some parenting moments but the rest of it, not so much. Straight away Dawn echoes my own feelings when she mentions how she bought herself a diary at the start of this year....only to see the majority of it empty feeling sad. I look at mine, see and feel the same. I hear you sister!After the wedding ceremony, O'Dowd tweeted a photo of himself and Porter cuddling up in matching full-body sweatsuits, captioning, "Just married!!!!" Porter also shared the news with her fans, describing their wedding as a three-day love fest. She tweeted, "Twas a 3 day love fest. Sure, I have an amazing husband, but I also have the most smashing pals imaginable. It continues… #singsong.” Porter met Chris O'Dowd at her 30th birthday party in Los Angeles in 2009. The duo eventually started dating and got engaged in December 2011 in Guernsey. The couple finally exchanged wedding vows at a three-day party in an intimate wedding ceremony in London in August 2012. She first appeared on television in 2005 as a man tester in two episodes of the British comedy game show 'Balls of Steel.' In 2007, she was featured in the television documentary 'Super Slim Me'. She attempted to become an American size zero in eight weeks. with stunning clothes, ....but also has a down-to-earth genuine heart filled with so much love —— every man, woman, and child, must feel it. However for me, the humour felt manufactured and there was so much repetition and contradiction that I found it hard to read this with any real pleasure.

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