The Size of Everything: A Memoir
Written by Erin Cole and Jenna McCarthy
Narrated by Erin Cole
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About this audiobook
As the face of her eponymous couture bridal business, Erin Cole radiates refined elegance. But the designer’s glamorous lifestyle and sweeping success belie a childhood marked by profound dysfunction.
Raised on a steady diet of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and death, no one would have expected Cole to go on to become a force in the fashion world. As a child, she often had no access to food; other times she was force-fed until she vomited. At home and at school, she was beaten, bullied and belittled. Her alcoholic parents alternately abused and ignored her. By the age of sixteen, she was living on her own.
The Size of Everything is Cole’s moving story and so much more. Equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious, it’s a love letter to her surviving siblings, a how-not-to-parent manual, a testament to the power of positivity, and proof that where you come from doesn’t have to determine where you can go. Above all, The Size of Everything offers a powerful message of hope to anyone who believes that impossibly rocky beginnings can’t have a happy ending.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved it but it was a very tough book to get through. Great writing; she made it crystal clear how her life was so incredibly difficult. Bless her.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely excellent read. She want through hell and came out rocking! Highly recommend this book
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Really great story. What a life she has had. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is due to the slowness of her reading. It almost made me shut it off but I changed the speed to 1.5 and it was perfect!