Christina Patterson – The Art of Not Falling Apart

When life threw journalist Christina Patterson an involuntary-redundancy-shaped curveball, she decided to tear up the rulebook. Dreaming of revenge and irritated by self-help books, she set out to interview others who had found themselves picking up the pieces of their lives. There’s Ken, the first person to be publicly fired from a FTSE-100 board. There’s Winston, who fell through a ceiling onto a purple coffin. There’s Louise, whose baby was seriously ill, but who still worried about being fat. Christina shares their stories as well as her own, and talks about what she learnt about how to cope when life goes wrong.