Paris did an amazing job first and foremost showing how amazing and great traveller life can be! Successfully portraying it how it should be and not how unfortunately too much of the media and society portrays it.
Seeing her views on life were a welcome read too, about being a mum raising her children to how she viewed education within gypsy circles.
I liked how she showed she did well in school and her course in hair styling, fighting back against the stereotype that travellers are uneducated. I liked how she included this to destroy this stereotype.
Seeing how she handled online hate I particularly enjoyed too, the old adage “In one ear, out the other” was a point I liked reading and highlights how we all should tackle online hate.
Watching how she learned about mental health and how to help her husband through it as time went on was a lovely read to me as someone who also suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Her being open to learn and be there for her husband allowed one more person to understand this heavily stigmatised disorder and I have to congratulate Paris for that.
I thought this started off really well when Paris was explaining her upbringing and what makes her her. This gave insight in to the traveller community which, as she said, is private so I wouldn’t have otherwise known the traditions passed down through generations. Made it sound very fun and hard working and she comes across really clever and driven.
Then it’s on to Tyson and their marriage. I’ve read lots of memoirs over the years - many of married women and they still manage to be telling their own story. It comes across that Paris knows her worth but puts her husband before her - even in the story of her life. I wanted to go back to her which we eventually did in the last chapter.
Overall, you find out how much heartbreak she’s been strong through and I do have a lot of respect for her having read it. It reads as a book about boxing at times and one that just gives extra context to the Netflix show.
I really enjoyed this book I started reading the physical copy, but I find it quite hard to pick up the book to read, so that’s when I bought it on Apple Books and I finished it within like three days. It was really good
Borrowed this book. Not my usual and not somebody I'm necessarily interested in, but I really enjoyed this and the insight into the traveller lifestyle especially! Flew through it and found it really enjoyable