The Honesty Box
The warm and hopeful memoir about a marriage in freefall, making jam and the quiet rituals of rural life
Published on 27. February 2025
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-5266-7295-7 (ISBN)
Description
'I read this book in two sit downs! It is filled with compassion. An honest look at navigating life, marriage, family, neurodiversity and veg.' Anna Maxwell Martin
'A truly beautiful, magical book - I urge you to give it to anyone having a midlife wobble, because Lucy is unashamed about showing her vulnerability and what it is to be human, a woman, a wife and a mum in the 21st century. Heart-breaking and heart-warming, but the ultimate message is one of hope: never give up on the one you love.' Veronica Henry
"On National Divorce Day, my husband Steve and I decide to break up. After years of depression and mood swings (him) and hope and defeat (me) enough is, quite frankly, enough.
Until a chance remark triggers a chain of events leading to Steve's diagnosis of ADHD and autism. What follows is a year of discovery, denial, medication and salvation as we, our teenagers and even our beloved Golden Retriever, Margot, set out to embrace this new reality. But will my plan to start an amateur honesty box business from our tiny Devon village be the catalyst to bring us together, or drive us further apart?
This is about what it is like to try and rebuild a marriage. It is a funny, heart-wrenching, uplifting quest for truth, transformation and marrows.
I guess you could call it a love story too."
'A beautiful and much needed book about what it is like to be in a relationship with someone who is neurodivergent, and the challenges it can bring! Lucy's story highlights just how life changing a diagnosis can be, and how it can truly save relationships.' Rich and Rox Pink, @adhd_love_
'A truly beautiful, magical book - I urge you to give it to anyone having a midlife wobble, because Lucy is unashamed about showing her vulnerability and what it is to be human, a woman, a wife and a mum in the 21st century. Heart-breaking and heart-warming, but the ultimate message is one of hope: never give up on the one you love.' Veronica Henry
"On National Divorce Day, my husband Steve and I decide to break up. After years of depression and mood swings (him) and hope and defeat (me) enough is, quite frankly, enough.
Until a chance remark triggers a chain of events leading to Steve's diagnosis of ADHD and autism. What follows is a year of discovery, denial, medication and salvation as we, our teenagers and even our beloved Golden Retriever, Margot, set out to embrace this new reality. But will my plan to start an amateur honesty box business from our tiny Devon village be the catalyst to bring us together, or drive us further apart?
This is about what it is like to try and rebuild a marriage. It is a funny, heart-wrenching, uplifting quest for truth, transformation and marrows.
I guess you could call it a love story too."
'A beautiful and much needed book about what it is like to be in a relationship with someone who is neurodivergent, and the challenges it can bring! Lucy's story highlights just how life changing a diagnosis can be, and how it can truly save relationships.' Rich and Rox Pink, @adhd_love_
Reviews / Votes
This gorgeous memoir had me in all my feelings. It's the raw, funny, moving story of a marriage in crisis. Highly recommend. -- Jennie Godfrey Lucy's extraordinary, funny, uplifting and deeply touching book is as important as it is brilliantly written. Despite its huge themes - love, difference, discovery, life - the pages turn as easily as a holiday read. * Mark Diacono * Touching, topical and brilliantly woven together, this love story of despair, food and redemption is utterly charming. -- Dame Joanna Lumley Entertaining, enlightening, shocking and soothing. The joy of gorgeous nature writing mixed with the guilty pleasure of enjoying intimate access to the ups and downs of someone else's private life. I learnt a great deal about neurodivergence and now want to set up an honesty box. -- Poppy Okotcha Beautifully written, by someone who observes nature in all its glorious daily unfolding. -- Dorset Magazine A beautiful and much needed book about what it is like to be in a relationship with someone who is neurodivergent, and the challenges it can bring! Lucy's story highlights just how life changing a diagnosis can be, and how it can truly save relationships. -- Rich and Rox Pink, @adhd_love_More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-7295-7 (9781526672957)
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02/2025
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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02/2025
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Person
Lucy Brazier is a ghostwriter and author. She began her career at the BBC before becoming a talent agent at PFD (now United Agents) representing actors and presenters. After twenty years, she and her young family left London and moved to Dorset where she worked with the broadcaster, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, before becoming a full time ghostwriter six years ago. She has worked on many writing projects and written nine books on behalf of high-profile people, across a range of subjects including lifestyle, food, interiors, education, money and memoir. Her first book in her own name was Christmas at River Cottage and she regularly contributes to The Simple Things magazine. Her second book, The Honesty Box, is a non-fiction narrative capturing a year in her life through her home, village, husband's ASD diagnosis and honesty box. She swims in the sea most mornings, but doesn't like to go on about it...