Book Synopsis:
For fans of Bryony Gordon and Dolly Alderton, The Sisterhood is an honest and hilarious book which celebrates the ways in which women connect with each other.
‘My five sisters are the only women I would ever kill for. And they are the only women I have ever wanted to kill.’
Imagine living between the pages of Pride And Prejudice, in the Bennett household. Now, imagine how the Bennett girls as they’d be in the 21st century – looking like the Kardashian sisters, but behaving like the Simpsons. This is the house Daisy Buchanan grew up in,
Daisy’s memoir The Sisterhood explores what it’s like to live as a modern woman by examining some examples close to home – her adored and infuriating sisters. There’s Beth, the rebellious contrarian; Grace, the overachiever with a dark sense of humour; Livvy, the tough girl who secretly cries during adverts; Maddy, essentially Descartes with a beehive; and Dotty, the joker obsessed with RuPaul’s Drag Race and bears.
In this tender, funny and unflinchingly honest account Daisy examines her relationship with her sisters and what it’s made up of – friendship, insecurity jokes, jealousy and above all, love – while celebrating the ways in which women connect with each other and finding the ways in which we’re all sisters under the skin.
The Sisterhood is available in ebook and paperback from today, the 7th March 2019. You can purchase a copy of both using the link below.
My Review:
The Sisterhood is a very funny, intimate account of the author’s life and experiences with her sisters.
I have a sister and whilst I love her very much I can’t imagine having five sisters and all the complications it must have caused. In this book the author gives the reader an intimate, fly on the wall glimpse into her relationship with her sisters and some of the key moments that have shaped them. It sometimes felt that I was intruding on a personal moment as the author doesn’t hold back on revealing exactly what happened. Some of the stories made me smile as I remember similar scenarios, arguments and conversations with my own sister, so the story had a nostalgic quality for me.
The chapters are quite short and each have been given an intriguing title which makes the reader wonder what it will be about. I moved between wishing I could have been one of the sisters and able to join in with them, to being quite glad I only had one sister as I’m not sure I could have coped in such a large family. Throughout the stories the author describes how her relationship with her sisters had to change throughout the years to accommodate their shifting views and roles which I found fascinating. I haven’t ever given this much thought so it’s definitely given my food for thought.
It would have been easy for the author to just focus on herself throughout this book but she doesn’t do this. Instead as promised this really felt like a tribute to her sisters. In between the stories about them there is a little bit about each of the sisters individually which gives the reader a chance to get to know them all quite personally which I really enjoyed. This definitely helped to give me a better idea of family dynamics and the relationship they enjoyed with each other.
This is the second book by this author that I’ve read and it won’t be my last as I always enjoy her funny, frank stories.
Huge thanks to Jennifer Harlow from Headline for my copy of this book which I received in exchange for an honest review.
About The Author:
Daisy Buchanan is an award winning journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed book How To Be A Grown Up. She’s a regular contributor to TV and radio, frequently appearing on Woman’s Hour, Good Morning Britain, This Morning, Sky News and the Today programme. Daisy writes for a wide range of publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Sun, Grazia, Marie Claire and The Pool, covering everything from pop culture to mental health with a feminist perspective. She’s a TEDx speaker, giving advice on how to get through the trickiest parts of your twenties in her talk How To Survive A Quarter Life Crisis. Daisy has been Grazia’s in house agony aunt, writing the popular Dear Daisy column, and she’s currently the title’s Reality TV correspondent, covering Made In Chelsea with her tongue firmly in her cheek.
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