Pretty Things Don't Break: A Memoir

By Lauren Jayne

Travel with Lauren as she spends her nursery school days
in her parents' topless jazz club in Sydney, Australia.
Bloom with her as she comes of age in Seattle's burgeoning grunge era.
Hold on tight as you journey through her chaos-filled, roller-coaster life,
where she battles abuse, neglect, a debilitating eating disorder, and suicide.

Lauren saw too much and grew up too fast.
Her mother was a beautiful and distant enigma,
her father a charming monster with pervy ways,
and her grandfather...a founding father of Vegas.

Pretty Things Don't Break
transports you into Lauren's turbulent, larger than life world.

What she yearned for the most- stability, care, and love-always felt out of reach.

Celebrate with her as she finds all she had been missing
in her tight-knit group of friends.
Here, she'll experience her first love, first loss ...
When the world she'd been battling to hold together
since birth crumbled, she's determined to put it back
together in a whole new way.

Pretty Things Don't Break effortlessly ebbs and flows
from heartbreaking to soul healing.
It beautifully illustrates how despite any
negativity and turbulence we may experience,
we have the power to change, redirect,
carve a new path for ourselves, and become
free and happy and human beings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541122879
• ISBN13: 9781541122871
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"