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‘ She Seems Fine to Me reads like Nixon speaks – sparky, crackling with rage, but also, somehow, laugh-out-loud funny’ – Guardian
Actress, check. Wife, check. Mother, check. In control of her own mind? Well. . .
After a lifetime of getting everything ‘ right’ – marrying her childhood sweetheart, starring in hits from Fresh Meat and Cranford to Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, having a much-longed-for baby – Kimberley Nixon’ s brain broke. Or, more specifically, OCD won.
‘ ‘ From the outside, I was coping. Inside, my brain was on fire. ’
She Seems Fine to Me is not a tidy recovery story. In this jaw-droppingly honest and darkly funny memoir, Kimberley shares what it’ s like to become a mother while losing your sense of self, loving your child ferociously while being terrified of your own mind and the brutal gap between the rose-tinted version of motherhood we are sold and the more complicated reality.
At once devastating and tender, Kim’ s story will resonate with anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by motherhood, failed by the system or frightened by thoughts they were too ashamed to say out loud. It’ s for anyone who has ever been told they looked fine when they were anything but.
