Emma Forrest. (2011). Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir. Other Press.

Emma Forrest. 2011. Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir. Other Press.

Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir. Other Press, 2011.

Emma Forrest. Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir. Other Press, 2011.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/031/D16/AC/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/031/D16/AC/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781590514474
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 643838
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781590514474
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B004EBT6Z6
     3. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 643838
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781590514474
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 643838
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 1590514467

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Emma Forrest

title

Your Voice in My Head

dateAdded

2016-06-16T18:44:00-04:00

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=481709
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Your Voice in My Head A Memoir

crossRefId

481709

subtitle

A Memoir

id

031d16ac-66af-43a5-af86-44873048cb85

starRating

4

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: YourVoiceinMyHead_9781590514474_481709
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 2226175
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781590514474
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 643838
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 5/3/2011
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/031/D16/AC/YourVoiceinMyHeadAMemoir9781590514474.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: YourVoiceinMyHead_481709
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 643838
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B004EBT6Z6
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 5/3/2011
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/031/D16/AC/YourVoiceinMyHeadAMemoir9781590514474.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: YourVoiceinMyHead_9781590514474_481709
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781590514474
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 643838
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 5/3/2011
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/031/D16/AC/YourVoiceinMyHeadAMemoir9781590514474.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: Biography
2. • value: antidepressants
3. • value: autobiographies
4. • value: mental health
5. • value: human nature
6. • value: Autobiography
7. • value: therapy
8. • value: Memoirs
9. • value: psychology
10. • value: self help
11. • value: psychiatry
12. • value: biographies
13. • value: self help books
14. • value: mental illness
15. • value: depression
16. • value: memoir
17. • value: cognitive behavioral therapy
18. • value: depression workbook
19. • value: biographies and memoirs
20. • value: anxiety and depression
21. • value: mental health books
22. • value: psychology books
23. • value: self help books for women
24. • value: self improvement books
25. • value: depression books
26. • value: biographies of famous people
27. • value: mental illness books
28. • value: psychology book
29. • value: books on depression
30. • value: depression journal

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Forrest, Emma
   • bioText: Emma Forrest is the author of three novels and editor of the nonfiction essay collection Damage Control. Raised in London, she now lives in Los Angeles, where she is a screenwriter.
   • name: Emma Forrest

publishDate

2011-05-03T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Your Voice in My Head

fullDescription

Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist—a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life. She was on the brink of drowning, but she was still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family. Reeling from the premature death of a man who had become her anchor after she turned up on his doorstep, she was adrift. And when her all-consuming romantic relationship also fell apart, Emma was forced to cling to the page for survival and regain her footing on her own terms.
   A modern-day fairy tale, Your Voice in My Head is a stunning memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit. In her unique voice, Emma Forrest explores the highs and lows of love and the heartbreak of loss.

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content:

     "Your Voice in My Head is part of a literary tradition that began long before Susanna Kaysen's girlhood was interrupted or Elizabeth Wurtzel got her first Prozac prescription. . . [Forrest is] talented . . . through these words we share her insight: there's something to be said for occasionally listening to a voice other than your own."

2. • premium: False
   • source: People Magazine
   • content: "Her psychiatrist dies, then her lover leaves. A memoir about finding strength when you least expect to."
3. • premium: False
   • source: Nick Hornby, The Believer
   • content: "[An] admirably airy and riveting book...Emma Forrest is such a winning, smart writer..."
4. • premium: False
   • source: Jewcy
   • content: "If you're reading one memoir this year, probably make it Emma Forrest's Your Voice in My Head."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Kirkus Reviews (starred)
   • content: "A brilliantly realized memoir of surprise and startling beauty."
6. • premium: False
   • source: Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
   • content: "Emma Forrest is an incredibly gifted writer, who crafted the living daylights out of every sentence in this unforgettable memoir. I can't remember the last time I ever read such a blistering, transfixing story of obsession, heartbreak and slow, stubborn healing."
7. • premium: False
   • source: Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
   • content: "Emma Forrest is as hilarious as she is wise. And did I mention generous? Unlike most memoirs this is not merely a song of oneself, but a debt of gratitude repaid to an incredible man--her psychiatrist. Your Voice In My Head is touching, funny, and very real."
8. • premium: False
   • source: Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age
   • content: "I read Your Voice in My Head in one sitting, by turns laughing out loud, gasping with recognition, and fighting to hold back tears--and wondering, of course, who is Emma Forrest and how is she able to write with such enormous wit and bravery about subjects most folks can't muster the courage to bring up in conversation: suicide, self-loathing, loneliness, depression, mania, and, most of all, love inexplicably lost."
9. • premium: False
   • source: Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, Dazed and Confused
   • content: "Forrest's insightful and snappily-written account of her lengthy battles against depression, self-harm, damaging relationships, and potato-based fried snacks is heartfelt and touching and surprisingly funny."
10. • premium: False
    • source: Sunday Times Style Magazine
    • content: "A bittersweet love letter . . . It is a brilliant read."
11. • premium: False
    • source: Julie Myerson, The Observer
    • content: "[Your Voice in My Head] dances along with all the lyrical panache of a novel . . . Her prose is smart and frequently witty and there are echoes of early Lorrie Moore."
12. • premium: False
    • source: The Globe and Mail
    • content: "Forrest is stylish and evocative; whether she is sick and listless in New York or sex-dipped and radiantly happy in Los Angeles, she writes it cool, clever, and ravaging, in very few strokes. . . Her story is crushing and complicated, and entirely common . . . It's gorgeous."
13. • premium: False
    • source: Dan Kennedy, author of L
    • content: "Your Voice in My Head is every drink that's ever started out sweet then turned strong enough to sneak up on you and kick your ass to the floor, or bed, or hell, or heaven."
14. • premium: True
    • source:
    • content:

      June 27, 2011
      Forrest's memoir of suffering from mania, bulimia, and self-mutilation is written with such candor, humor, and lush, sensual prose it becomes, quite surprisingly, a rich, often riotous, pleasure to listen to. A British transplant to New York City at 22, on contract with the Guardian and completing her first novel, Forrest notices that her "quirks had gone beyond eccentricity" and she dissolves into self-loathing and self-destructive relationships—until she makes a fortuitous connection with her "savior," a psychiatrist, Dr. R. The unsparing, unsentimental narrative is beautifully served by Forrest's reading. Her voice is low, halting; she confides rather than narrates, and she switches easily from the confessional mode to rollicking sendups of her family members and friends—her father's Sean Connery brogue, her grandmother who sounds like a Yiddish Prunella Scales, her squeaky baby sister, and every variety of New York accent. Less impressive, and more than slightly offensive, however are her depictions of minorities. Her crude "Chinese" and "Indian" accents are cringe inducing. An Other Press hardcover.

15. • premium: True
    • source:
    • content:

      March 1, 2011
      

      Screenwriter and novelist Forrest (Cherries in the Snow, 2005, etc.) delivers an intense story of madness and redemption.

      Though the author, a transplanted Brit, was enjoying some success as a writer in New York City, she writes, "my quirks had gone beyond eccentric, past the warm waters of weird to those cold, deep patches of sea where people lose their lives." She was cutting, bingeing and purging, clinging to disastrous relationships and feeling suicidal. She found help with Dr. R., but still attempted suicide soon after starting to see him. During the next decade, Dr. R. became her friend, mentor and life raft. Forrest says much about Dr. R., but concludes, "I liked how he saw me. It's that simple." After eight years of therapy, Dr. R. died without warning; Forrest learned of his death through an e-mail. Angered and confused by being left behind so abruptly, many of her old habits returned. Still, Dr. R.'s voice remained in her head—sometimes speaking though her cat—gently easing her pain, giving her strength. A famous movie star, GH, became her lover and just as quickly left her. Forrest's narrative follows the now-familiar arc of being lost then found, but the profoundly precise writing sets it apart. The author provides plenty of pop-culture references and name-drops like crazy—Heath Ledger, Brad Pitt, Gloria Steinem—but readers are never sure if these people are actually there. Does she really see Monica Lewinsky each time she is crying in a West Village café? There are mysteries here, but a pervasive honesty as well.

      A brilliantly realized memoir of surprise and startling beauty.

       

      (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

16. • premium: True
    • source:
    • content:

      May 1, 2011
      Forrests compelling memoir chronicles her struggles with depression and self-harm, and the relationship with her psychiatrist, who was one of the driving forces in her recovery. At 22, Forrest has moved from England to New York City, a gifted writer about to publish her first novel, yet desperately lonely and in a cycle of cutting and bulimia. She finds herself at the doorstep of Dr. R, an affable psychiatrist, who works with her through a failed suicide attempt and a string of destructive relationships. Eight years later, she is devastated when she learns that Dr. R has unexpectedly succumbed to lung cancer. He had never indicated to his patients that he was ill and leaves a significant void in Forrests life. Further, Dr. Rs death occurs just as she is involved in an intense relationship with a well-known actor. When the relationship fails, she is left to navigate her ensuing heartbreak without the help of Dr. R. Forrest turns an unsparing eye on her difficulties and details her struggles, and healing, with honesty and vitality.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

17. • premium: True
    • source:
    • content:

      March 1, 2011
      

      Screenwriter and novelist Forrest (Cherries in the Snow, 2005, etc.) delivers an intense story of madness and redemption.

      Though the author, a transplanted Brit, was enjoying some success as a writer in New York City, she writes, "my quirks had gone beyond eccentric, past the warm waters of weird to those cold, deep patches of sea where people lose their lives." She was cutting, bingeing and purging, clinging to disastrous relationships and feeling suicidal. She found help with Dr. R., but still attempted suicide soon after starting to see him. During the next decade, Dr. R. became her friend, mentor and life raft. Forrest says much about Dr. R., but concludes, "I liked how he saw me. It's that simple." After eight years of therapy, Dr. R. died without warning; Forrest learned of his death through an e-mail. Angered and confused by being left behind so abruptly, many of her old habits returned. Still, Dr. R.'s voice remained in her head--sometimes speaking though her cat--gently easing her pain, giving her strength. A famous movie star, GH, became her lover and just as quickly left her. Forrest's narrative follows the now-familiar arc of being lost then found, but the profoundly precise writing sets it apart. The author provides plenty of pop-culture references and name-drops like crazy--Heath Ledger, Brad Pitt, Gloria Steinem--but readers are never sure if these people are actually there. Does she really see Monica Lewinsky each time she is crying in a West Village caf�? There are mysteries here, but a pervasive honesty as well.

      A brilliantly realized memoir of surprise and startling beauty.

      (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

popularity

72

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/031d16ac-66af-43a5-af86-44873048cb85/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

031d16ac-66af-43a5-af86-44873048cb85

starRating

4

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/031/D16/AC/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/031/D16/AC/{031D16AC-66AF-43A5-AF86-44873048CB85}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Biography & Autobiography
2. • value: Psychology
3. • value: Self-Improvement
4. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

05/03/2011

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781590514467

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist—a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life. She was on the brink of drowning, but she was still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family. Reeling from the premature death of a man who had become her anchor after she turned up on his doorstep, she was adrift. And when her all-consuming romantic relationship also fell apart, Emma was forced to cling to the page for survival and...

sortTitle

Your Voice in My Head A Memoir

crossRefId

481709

subtitle

A Memoir

publisher

Other Press

bisacCodes

1. • code: BIO026000
   • description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
2. • code: PSY049000
   • description: Psychology / Psychopathology / Depression
3. • code: SEL011000
   • description: Self-Help / Mood Disorders / Depression