Some Days: A Memoir

by Lucy Moffatt

"If there's anything good that can come out of this horrible situation - if I have to die - at least someday you can write about it and make us both famous." At five years old, the only thing Chelsea had ever said to Lucy was 'I don't want to be your friend, freckle-face!' But then the girls learned a simple, magical thing: they had been born less than 24 hours apart only days before Christmas, at the same hospital. This moment of delight drew them together and fastened them like glue. At twelve they painted their faces and made their own commercials; at eighteen they threw the party that made high school history. At twenty-one their friendship was tested in a way they could never have imagined. By twenty-four, Chelsea had disappeared forever. Your early twenties are difficult to enough without illness and death thrown into the mix, but sometimes life happens before you've had time to make other plans. In this raw, honest and achingly passionate testament to female friendship, Lucy indulges in one last long, winding chat with the memory of her best friend, revisiting their shared memories and coming to grips with the future whilst navigating the deep, dark well of grief for the first time.

Genres: Nonfiction

216 pages, Paperback

Published March 30, 2019

Reviews

[Lucy Hagan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A work of pure genius

[Ruth Gilbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sometimes confronting, sometimes joyous and sometimes very, very sad, this book gives an insight in love and loss, and also to the views and lifestyle of a generation. Ms Moffat wrote to honor her friend's life and to deal with her own grief. She'd done just that and with an unflinching honesty. Her friend Chelsea would be proud.

[Andy Collingwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sincere and emotional memoir which portrays the raw and subjective nature of grief. A book which makes you appreciate your friends and begs you to cherish them.

[Felix · Rating 5 out of 5]

i did in fact read this by a sunny window with a drink and some tissues