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Lucid
- A Memoir of an Extreme Decade in an Extreme Generation
- Narrated by: Lucy Holden
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'In Bath, I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an empty blue sky that reflected nothing of the chaos in the world. Below the fields flashed the seaweed-green of a London train, and I imagined my former life at the end of it but felt more like it had been tied to the tracks and careered over at 100 mph.'
After a wild decade of hedonistic city life that veered violently into trauma, Lucy Holden was thrown back down the ladder to her parents’ house in a pandemic that paused the parties and forced her to ask herself how she’d become who she’d become. Grown-up, broken-down, completely lost, then locked in - Lucy realises she can’t make it up as she goes along forever and instead has to confront the darkness she’s been running from her entire adult life.
In this raw, hilarious, sometimes filthy, often emotional memoir about a young woman asking herself how long she has until her act cracks completely, the mental health of a fast-paced world that never sits still is called into question. With charm and wit, Lucid addresses what it means to be young in today’s society - and where we can go from here.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-02-2022
An enjoyable, thoughtful paradox about the complexities of youth
Well spoken.Enjoyed Lucy’s narration the whole way. Felt her highs & lows, from moving to London after uni. New job, new city, new adventures. Opportunities. Buzz of city magnetism, reality of shared spaces, high rents, chasing tails to make ends meet as in the city ‘everyone hustles’. Doing whatever is required to get through the day, over & over again. Huge highs followed by blurred deep lows.
Trust me it’s not a millennial exclusive though.
The 2nd part takes readers on a more profound, obviously deeply personal journey about wounds unresolved that many of us have at one time experienced. Neither easily understood, explained nor erased. Why we make decisions, why we hold on to hope in clearly ( well to family friends) destructive situations, repeat patterns not the same people till we are hopelessly spent, confused, battered, shamed, blamed. Perpetrators & worse, ourselves. Until once more we crawl out of the mud & with loving support try again, someway not tried before.
Cvd19 has changed networks. How we connect, how we determine who to connect with using technology. Awful thing to say look around & determine Am I waking up in a place every day and feel some happiness, peace, inspiration?
Returning to Bath, her family home, to lick confidence knocks in a way many families only can. Cup of tea, walks, dinner trays during cvd19 isolation worries, hugs & guidance & family warmth to soothe uncertainty.
Overall a brave tale (at times funny exploits & busy nights in various cities) from a strong woman unafraid to not only question her demons, dig up her past and record how she healed escaping herself.
That she was enough who she is, was. Always was perfect. Somehow an incident or set of social expectations delivers others are better, we must do more, be more to succeed- relationship, career, travel, residence, travel, excitement. Oh and exude fabulousness!
While a personal journey certainly reflects the turmoil cvd19 impacts globally, the social discord brought about by lockdowns, fatigued instructions trying to maintain patriarchal power & the rise of Metoo Movement where women no longer are prepared to be submitted into silence by those who try to dim their light.
Should think it’s a book that has broad appeal.
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