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The Wrong Knickers: A Decade Of Chaos (2014)

by Bryony Gordon(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1472210158 (ISBN13: 9781472210159)

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English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

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review 1: It started, as ever with a kiss. It always starts with a kiss. It never starts with five pints of larger, three shots of tequila, and your bottom being groped in a dingy bar, does it? In the morning Josh has to get to work quickly or he will be late he throws her clothes to her to get ready fast. And after spending the night in Josh's bed he thows a pink pair, silky knickers which land in her lap, Agent Provocater label side up, and he remarks to her those are pretty knickers. But these pretty size 8 silky knickers are the wrong knickers. This story is deliciously indiscreet at times.
review 2: I fear I'm the equivalent of Bryony's smug married friend Sally by giving this book two stars, but I couldn't give it any more in good conscience. There's no doubt she... more's a smart(ish) hack with a decent enough turn of phrase, but her tales are so sordid and removed from my comparatively tame 20s that I found it all a bit too car-crash. I found her self-revulsion after her various disastrous escapades (going straight to the office after a night of copious coke-snorting and booze, taking ecstasy at Glastonbury, getting involved with a married bloke) interesting, though; it made me want to give her a good shake. If you know it's not good for you morally or health-wise or psychologically or whatever then show some self-restraint already and DON'T DO IT. Stop blaming your parents' divorce and being so bloody dramatic. Get it together, already! But then I am a prude. Or a bore. Whatevs.I wonder why she wrote this. To absolve herself of guilt? To horrify her mother? I can only hope that some disillusioned 20-somethings read this and decide to do something about their messed-up lives a bit sooner than Bryony did. Oh, and that 'something'? Doesn't have to be meeting a bloke. less

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