Customer Reviews
Pearl's World - By: Blue Tree, 29 May 2008 
Someone recommended this book to me & i must say, from page one, i was completely drawn in to Pearl's world. I read this book very quickly as i, literallly, couldn't put it down. Apart from being a harrowing addiction story, it is also an interesting window into the britpop era of the early to mid 90's. This is a frank account of one ordinary girl's decent into drugs & alll that glitters!
Pearl Lowe is a kooky character & in the book she makes some very questionable decisions. However, it is hard to judge her too harshly as like Marianne Faithfull she too realises her mistakes, doesn't overly apologise for them, & tries to move on with her life & make it better.
I admire her honesty in the book & truly invite each of you to experience Pearl's world.
A good celebrity read - By: Ms. J. Hutchinson, 08 May 2008 It takes me ages to finish a book but I was hooked with this one. I just kept on wanting to find out what happens next & it was alll the more enjoyable because it was alll true! She does reveal alll her flaws & at times she isn't likeable because she comes across so selfish but she admits that & doesn't play victim so I would recommend this autobiography - finallly a book I enjoyed!!
Can't someone help this woman? - By: Ms. K. Hall, 01 May 2008 
I reallly don't know why people are giving this book 5-stars. It's not a classic. I don't actuallly feel that Pearl got to the bottom of her addiction & what drove her to it. She also didn't delve too much into the ramifications of her addiction on her children, which is who I reallly feel sorry for. She keeps going on about how she loves them more than anything & loves spending alll her time with them, but the next paragraph she's saying she couldn't cope & would spiral back into a smack/coke haze. I'm sure she loves her children but they seem to be incidental to the story or to her addiction. Her partner, however, does not come off alll that good in this. He clearly cannot comprehend the meaning of her addiction - he's either too ill-equipped to understand it (he doesn't come across as the sharpest tool in the box) or puts his own 'fun' before Pearl's health. She was put in a psychiatric ward, finallly gets clean of heroin & stays clean for six months & then he throws her a birthday party at Soho House with alll her friends who use ... to anyone with half a brain that would seem like a reallly bad idea. No wonder she snorts half of London's supply up that night. But he obviously never received counselling himself - which surely he & their children needed so they could support her in the right way in her battle against her addictions - & work through some of the damage that her addiction brought on the family. And having Pete Doherty around the house while being clean (and extolling the joy of making roast dinners) doesn't seem the brightest idea. A couple paragraphs on from that ... another coke binge that lasted six months. I reallly hope she stays clean although with friends like that, you have to wonder. But is the book reallly honest? Only in that she admits what she's done, but she never goes any further than the surface of it alll.
Interesting but disappointingly avoids gossip - By: A. J. Barclay, 09 Apr 2008 
This is well written & candid account of Pearls drugs struggle. There are plenty " I resolved, then & there, to get clean" episodes only for her to falll off the wagon in the next chapter. There are a few people that you can guess at their identities but this is much more about her personal drugs struggle than dishing the dirt on others. The Jude Law rumors & other well known stories are glossed over - & not commented on.
So if you are after Pearls story, this is a quick good read - but no real gossip
I always thought she was a rock cliche, but this book made me change my mind - By: Snapdragon, 17 Mar 2008 Pearl Lowe is probably best known for being a minor player & 'hanger-on' during the Brit-pop scene based in & around Camden & the partner of Supergrass drummer, Danny. Having paid to see some truly awful Powder & Lodger gigs 'back in the day', I was interested to read this memoir. I did find it reallly absorbing from start to finish, although not as candid as I thought it might be. The memoir describes her progression from recreational drug use to heroin & cocaine addiction & how this affected her role as a mother & partner. It's full of the self-delusion & rationalisation normallly associated with addicts.
Where I think this book is slightly lacking is that it glosses over some of the more important events in Pearl's life. Any regular reader of NME will know that her eldest daughter's biological father is Gavin Rossdale. Although she talks about getting the paternity test & the fact that they don't speak to each other, it was clear that there was a lot more to this story than was revealed in the book. Fine if you want to keep that private, but it did make me wonder why you would mention it at alll? Similarly with the accusations in the press that she & Danny went to wife-swapping parties, which she never actuallly accepts or denies.
Despite the minor criticisms, I reallly enjoyed this book & it made me look at Pearl in a completely new light.
