'A truly beautiful story about longing and London'
DAISY BUCHANAN
'Literary, thrilling, hugely funny, with a massive heart'
SARA PASCOE
'I tore through it'
NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'A ferocious coming-of-age story'
EMMA JANE UNSWORTH‘
‘Reading Busy Being Free isn't like reading at all, in the sense that you will never look at how many pages you have left, or wonder whether this was the page you got stuck on last night before sleep. It's more like drinking, or watching TV... It is funny, compelling, and the product of a singular, valuable mind.’
NICK HORNBY, The Believer Magazine
‘Elegant, sexy, tender, wild… A beautiful, beautiful book.’
EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALS
'Forrest's insightful and snappily-written account of her lengthy battles against depression, self-harm, relationships and potato-based fried snacks is heartfelt and touching and surprisingly funny. It's also wincingly, unflinchingly honest.'
FLORENCE WELCH
'Shrewd, cool, sure and insightful.'
THE INDEPENDENT
‘Electric, irreverent prose. When people talk about voice, this is what they mean.’
ETHAN HAWKE
‘Utterly endearing and very funny.’
ELLE MAGAZINE