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The Honesty Box
The warm and hopeful memoir about a marriage in freefall, making jam and the quiet rituals of rural life
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Description
'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
A funny, heartfelt, uplifting quest for unlocking happiness in tough times during life's big transitions - from marriage to motherhood, and from mental health to mindfulness.
"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 later-in-life 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, adjust to the ups and downs of this new reality.
I guess you could call it a love story too.”
One wife and mother, one garden, and one year of discovering how honesty, hope and home-grown kindness can change everything.
Product details
| Published | 02 Jun 2026 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781526673008 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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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
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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
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Touching, topical and brilliantly woven together, this love story of despair, food and redemption is utterly charming.
Dame Joanna Lumley
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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
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Beautifully written, by someone who observes nature in all its glorious daily unfolding.
Dorset Magazine
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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_
























