Lucid: A memoir of an extreme decade in an extreme generation

By: Lucy Holden

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Synopsis: 'In Bath I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an empty blue sky that reflected nothing of the chaos in the world. Below the fields flashed the seaweed-green of a London train and I imagined my former life at the end of it but felt more like it had been tied to the tracks and careered over at 100 mph.' After a wild decade of hedonistic city life that veered violently into trauma, Lucy Holden was thrown back down the ladder to her parents&’ house in a pandemic which paused the parties and forced her to ask herself how she&’d become who she&’d become? Grown-up, broken-down, completely lost, then locked-in – Lucy realises she can&’t make it up as she goes along forever and instead has to confront the darkness she&’s been running from her entire adult life. In this raw, hilarious and often emotional memoir about a young woman asking herself how long she has until her act cracks completely, the mental health of a fast-paced world that never sits still is called into question. With charm and wit, Lucid addresses what it means to be young in today&’s society – and where we can go from here.