What's That Lady Doing?

Guilt, Shame, Blame and Other Funny Stories

Lou Sanders, Louise Sanders

• Publisher: Blink Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788708593
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died
' A deftness that catches your breath ' - Fern Brady
' An incredible piece of writing ' - Brett Goldstein
' Interrogates moments of trauma with insight, kindness and humanity ' - John Robins
This is a book about mistakes. And why we should de-flower shame in all its messy, complicated glory...
Hello!It's Lou here...I've poured my heart and guts on to the page and shared my soul in this book. This won't be for everyone but I hope it helps the people it does connect with. We all have stories and I think its useful to share them, I think it helps unite us and in some ways it helps us release some shame.I've been alarmingly truthful and sincere, because I think society would be better if we could all be honest. I've of course used humour too, not as a way to cope (I've processed the darker things that have happened to me), but as a change in pace, some gorgeous light relief, because life is light and dark dancing together in the wind. And I love jokes.
If this is the sort of thing you're after, please pick me up and take me to bed (that's the book speaking so a little joke there).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• How Do You Play?
• How to Make Someone Notice You
• Barbie and Bestiality (A Misleading Title)
• Popular Isn’t Always Better
• Pontins, Vodka and Belly Rings
• The Most Beautiful Man in the Town
• A Dear Pig’s Ear
• Apologies to the Babysitter and Tents Aren’t Soundproof
• Forgiving My Stepdad
• Destruction 101
• When Life Gives You Lemons, Drink Lemongrass
• (Sung) Being on the Passenger Side of the Older Guys’ Rides
• The Worst Bartender in Margate
• Rape is a Four-letter Word
• How to Get a 2.2 from One of the Bottom-ranking Universities
• Do Stolen Bodies Taste Better?
• Not Every Massage is a Couples’ Massage
• The Worst Drug Dealer of All Time
• The Altar of Gibraltar
• Beating the Rugby Team (Crucially Not at Rugby)
• An Apology to Andi Peters
• Poppadoms Don’t Preach
• Fake It Till You Break It
• Some Deep Detective Work in Chiswick
• Yeah, I Guess I Am a Life-saver
• I’ve Been Thinking… About Your Personality
• How I Got into Comedy
• Am I Dying Through My Vagina?
• A Rose By Any Other Name
• What is Wrong With Your Face?
• Geoff Leopard
• Where Did You Learn to Jazz?
• Wine Head and a Slippery Slope
• How I Stopped Drinking
• Death is a Strong Word, We Should Call it Recycling
• A Poem – It’s Not What He Would Have Wanted
• Spiritual Kinks
• Heartbreak Hotel: A Very Blue Middle of 2022
• Writing This Book and Where I am Now
• Acknowledgements