During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soulmate, and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm.
She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr Wrongs. Overton, an anaesthetist, realised she had been so busy looking after the needs of others that she had forgotten to look after herself. So she set out on a course to take control of her future and finally become independent of men.
Good in a Crisis is Overton's witty story of dealing with the most serious of life's problems: loss of life, loss of love and loss of innocence.
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The operating room secretary stopped me as I strode past the control desk wearing Gumby-green scrubs and a long blue paper gown.- INTRODUCTION
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(@BloomsburyBooks, 7 February 2012, e-book, 249 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveInc, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book about divorce)
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I loved Good In A Crisis. I knew nothing about this memoir before I read it. I chose it at random as it fir the Popsugar prompt. This is the perfect memoir, fun, sad, moving, shocking, a little bit of everything. I felt like a really got to know Margaret as she battled a messy divorce, health issues and terrible dating experiences. I can relate to Margaret falling for the wrong people and taking someone at face value only to discover how wrong the assumptions were. My assumptions did not cost me what Margaret's did and a particular chapter had me in tears. This is heart-wrenching.
