Spinning Plates
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR talks Music, Men and Motherhood
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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Singer, broadcaster and mother Sophie Ellis-Bextor shares her experiences, insights and reflections on men, music and motherhood.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor's kitchen discos became a source of much-needed escapism, catharsis and sequined joy for a swathe of the population during lockdown. From knackered mothers and fed-up fathers, to cooped up partiers with nowhere to go, Sophie's gloriously chaotic Friday kitchen performances have cheered and revived us.
Now Sophie is bringing that same mixture of down-to-earth candour and optimistic sparkle to her first book. Part memoir, part musings, Sophie will write about the conjuring act of adulthood and motherhood and how her experience of working while raising her five sons has given her the inescapable lesson of how to navigate life in the face of failure and imperfection.
Covering relationships, good enough parenting, the importance of delusion and dancing, Sophie writes about the things that take on greater importance as life becomes more complicated.
From the non-negotiables (solitude, music, glitter) to the unimportant (clean hair, deadlines, appropriate behaviour), this is a book about learning from our experiences and not being afraid to smash a few plates for the sake of what we actually need want and value.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-01-2022
Great Book, Great Woman
Great coverage of Sophie's life throughout the highs and lows and how she has evolved to be the person that she is today. Much of the book is her reflecting on experiences she had as a child and young adult and her quest to find herself - at times a bit of an outsider. Throughout the book she mentions lessons that she has learnt and how it has grown her as a person and used by her to influence others, mainly her children.
The book is relatable to life experiences that many people have and the reader gets the sense that she is wanting to achieve more normalization of challenging stories of personal experiences that are simply not talked about enough but are known to be subconsciously there on peoples minds.
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