Coming Undone (eBook)

Terri White is a writer, broadcaster and the Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, for which she was named Entertainment Magazine Editor of the Year (British Society of Magazine Editors). She previously edited some of the biggest publications in the UK and US, including Time Out New York and ShortList, and has also written for the Guardian, Grazia and the Big Issue. @Terri_White

Rarely does a memoir find such beauty in the worst experiences. Terri’s story is as bruising as her instinct to survive and excel is astonishing. This book will stay in my head and my heart

Powerful and moving, beautifully written, packed with stunning set-pieces and, I thought, a stinging-but-dazzling, complicated love-hate letter to NYC, and to how our dreams can too often deceive us. I found it bittersweet and raw, and radical as a memoir narrative: not so much a redemption tale as a chronicle of the real fallout of trauma: messy, difficult, intricate, infinite . . . [A] life-changing read

A breathtaking read . . . her honesty and her eloquence is the thing that makes it such a privilege to read . . . a raw, shocking, beautiful book

Some stories are so important they demand to be told

In anyone else's hands, Coming Undone might be an unbearably harrowing story of trauma and abuse, but Terri White finds a way to craft a compelling and heart-rending story from the pain she has endured for so long. Her exquisite writing drives the story ever onwards, keeping the reader close to her at all times, even when she is lost in the darkest of places. The story of a fragile phoenix dragging itself out from the ashes, this book is visceral and brutal and beautiful and needed

Unique, painful, compelling

Coming Undone by Terri White is possibly the most affecting, moving memoir I've ever read. Painful and exquisite, her writing about how childhood trauma shaped her got to me in a very visceral way. It's a remarkable book

I didn’t put it down until finished. White’s extraordinary memoir is gripping, unflinchingly honest and written with great wit