Australian columnist and prolific tweeter Kerri Sackville follows up her debut memoir When my husband does the dishes… with The little book of anxiety. Even better than her first book, this is surely to be a bestseller as well.
Sackville’s first book had a general focus on her youth (including the true story of how she almost got the part in BMX bandits over Nicole Kidman), as well as the quirks to be found in life as a mother, wife, friend and widely popular columnist. She is expert at extracting humour from the mundane, causing us to wonder why we never thought of life like that in the first place. The themes her humour touches on are so universal that her work is consistently amusing and relatable.
The Little Book of Anxiety is a slightly different beast. While as engaging and funny as ever, there is a greater frankness and more serious tone to this second work. This is only to be expected, as it revolves around Sackville’s perpetual feeling of anxiety. She delves deeply into her experiences, revealing the amusing side to this state of being including a particularly memorable account of being stuck in an elevator as a teen- not ideal for a young girl who suffers from claustrophobia. Yet there is also a hint of sadness as Sackville reveals the way fear is a constant in her life- from her husband and kids to her career. Sackville’s frankness is admirable and her self-deprecating attitude will charm the pants off you in a matter of pages.
In The Little Book of Anxiety we also see a writer whose style is becoming more cohesive and mature, making it even harder to put this little gem of a biography down.
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Author bio: Kerri Sackville has worked as a copywriter and freelance writer for nine years, and in that time has written extensively for mainstream media and parenting magazines, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, The Telegraph, Sunday Life magazine, the Child group of magazines, Littlies magazine (New Zealand) and Notebook magazine.
Praise: “Billed as what marriage looks like after three children and 150 years of togetherness, this memoir will have you giggling all the way to the laundry basket.” AWW
