Sadie Frost's tell-all covers her anarchic childhood, hertwo high-profile marriages, and finally growing up
Sadie Frost has had anextraordinary life, from her humble roots in 1960s Britain to her middle-class adult life, via her two high-profile marriages and living out her life in the media spotlight. In this candid book, Sadie tells her life story in her own style. She di
Sadie Frost's tell-all covers her anarchic childhood, her two high-profile marriages, and finally growing up
Sadie Frost has had an extraordinary life, from her humble roots in 1960s Britain to her middle-class adult life, via her two high-profile marriages and living out her life in the media spotlight. In this candid book, Sadie tells her life story in her own style. She discloses the details of her absolutely unique childhood and teenage years; she tells all the behind-the-scenes stories from the films she has worked on, including staying at Francis Ford Coppola's Hollywood home; and she reveals the story of her marriage to Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, and how she left her idyllic family life with him when she met Jude Law on the set of the film
Shopping
, later marrying him. She also discusses, at length, her life with Law, including her struggles with crippling postnatal depression. This is the story of a woman finding herself again—against all the odds—and finally growing up.
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Hardcover
,
262 pages
Published
October 15th 2010
by John Blake
(first published January 1st 2010)
Flicking through the used book bargains, idle curiosity saw me part with 49 cents of my hard earned money for this. Badly written with great big chunks missing - i.e. most of the juicy stuff you'd be interested in (Jude hired some good lawyers). I want my money back.
I picked this up in a celebration of having joined the library again, and being able to grab books I really wouldn't buy. This was just such a one.
I wouldn't say I was sorry to have read it - although the 'fictionalised' account of her parents' lives in the first chapter or so was
excruciating
and left me completely cold - but I was somewhat confused by it. Frost's account of her life seems heavily edited and chopped into something very brisk, honest but at pace. Years fly past with the words "
I picked this up in a celebration of having joined the library again, and being able to grab books I really wouldn't buy. This was just such a one.
I wouldn't say I was sorry to have read it - although the 'fictionalised' account of her parents' lives in the first chapter or so was
excruciating
and left me completely cold - but I was somewhat confused by it. Frost's account of her life seems heavily edited and chopped into something very brisk, honest but at pace. Years fly past with the words "I spent my time partying", and whilst I wasn't reading it for the kiss-and-tell of it, knowing full well that wasn't the kind of book it would be, I did expect it to tell...something.
The insight and honesty into post-natal depression and mental illness, both her own, and her father's, is commendable and remarkable, and her attempts to match up her own issues with their origins in her family life is intriguing, but all told with the feel of someone who's unloading their life history onto you in the pub, whilst certain that you're not that interested and are going to leave any minute. It's all at breakneck pace with dashes of insight, wrapped up in swathes of nothingness.
I wound up thinking I'd very much like to have tea with Sadie Frost, for she seems like great conversation and I've always liked her aplenty, but that I wouldn't much want to read another over-edited, jumbled book.
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Sadie Frost led and still leads a very interesting life. She spent a great deal of time discussing her childhood. Two-thirds of the book lead up to her adult life. She glosses over her adult life too quickly. I wish she would have discussed that part of her life more.
I did enjoy this book, but her adult life and marriages are almost airbrushed out, her marriage to Jude last about 30 pages, with Gary Kemp getting less space. Was ultimately disappointed.