--- product_id: 1290807 title: "Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir" price: "£18.62" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1290807-lets-pretend-this-never-happened-a-mostly-true-memoir store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir **Price:** £18.62 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - **How much does it cost?** £18.62 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1290807-lets-pretend-this-never-happened-a-mostly-true-memoir) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir [Lawson, Jenny] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir Review: Jenny Lawson is hilarious. - Having a bad day? Rough week? Need a laugh? You can’t go wrong by picking up this book. The way she writes and the way it sucks you in.. I am not a laugh out loud person unless it’s really funny, I don’t try to be a critic I guess it just takes more to make me laugh and she not only succeeded but she excelled at making me laugh! Review: The funniest book I've ever read - I was clinically depressed when I read Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. (Not because of the book, obviously; because there weren't enough chemicals in my brain or something.) I was also unmedicated. I was skipping several of my college classes a week, eating mostly garlic bread, and sleeping for about twelve hours a day. Incidentally, I was also reading a lot of books, because this involved lying on the couch for hours at a time but still managed to feel vaguely productive. I’m not trying to say that Let’s Pretend This Never Happened magically cured my depression, painted rainbow unicorns behind my eyelids and made me run a marathon. It didn’t. But it did manage to break through the haze and make me laugh quite a lot, something I cannot say of much during that period of my life (including Parks and Recreation, bad horror movies, and most of my friends). Let’s Pretend This Never Happened grew from Lawson’s popular blog “The Bloggess” in which she details her adventures as a mother, writer, and accidental taxidermy enthusiast. The narrative essays in her memoir read like a conversation with a friend. Only a really funny friend who’s funnier than your real friends. How your conversations would go if you were friends with cool people, like Tina Fey or Anna Kendrick or Jon Stewart or something. Lawson is willing to share the most ridiculous moments of her life, and they are brimming with glee and frankness. I originally wanted to include an extensive list of some of my favorites here, but I think it's better for Jenny to tell you about most of them herself. Just a tiny taste: she writes about one of her family's turkeys following her to school and making her husband buy her a taxidermied boar’s head she names James Garfield. Trust me, these are only scratching the surface. One of the most impressive things that Lawson accomplishes is using her humor to negotiate intimate human tragedy. She opens the chapter about her miscarriages with, “Okay, get prepared, because this chapter is kind of depressing and is about dead babies. I know. Ew.” When she talks about her anxiety, she details the embarrassing and jarring things she has said at parties, such as “I was stabbed in the face by a serial killer.” (Note: She wasn’t actually stabbed by a serial killer in the face.) It is obvious that humor is the lens through which Lawson feels comfortable talking about these topics, and instead of depersonalizing her, it manages to do the opposite. Instead of seeing Lawson as either an inhuman joke machine or a vat of depressing anecdotes, she is just a person, and one that we can deeply identify with at that. This is what kept her on the periphery of my subconscious long after I finished the book. I laughed aloud more times while reading Let’s Pretend This Never Happened than I did during David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, Tina Fey’s Bossypants, and Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? combined. And I love those books. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #30,350 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #43 in Humor Essays (Books) #170 in Women's Biographies #351 in Memoirs (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 14,425 Reviews | ## Images ![Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ZH5fxLRNL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jenny Lawson is hilarious. *by S***C on September 18, 2025* Having a bad day? Rough week? Need a laugh? You can’t go wrong by picking up this book. The way she writes and the way it sucks you in.. I am not a laugh out loud person unless it’s really funny, I don’t try to be a critic I guess it just takes more to make me laugh and she not only succeeded but she excelled at making me laugh! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The funniest book I've ever read *by M***B on November 12, 2017* I was clinically depressed when I read Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. (Not because of the book, obviously; because there weren't enough chemicals in my brain or something.) I was also unmedicated. I was skipping several of my college classes a week, eating mostly garlic bread, and sleeping for about twelve hours a day. Incidentally, I was also reading a lot of books, because this involved lying on the couch for hours at a time but still managed to feel vaguely productive. I’m not trying to say that Let’s Pretend This Never Happened magically cured my depression, painted rainbow unicorns behind my eyelids and made me run a marathon. It didn’t. But it did manage to break through the haze and make me laugh quite a lot, something I cannot say of much during that period of my life (including Parks and Recreation, bad horror movies, and most of my friends). Let’s Pretend This Never Happened grew from Lawson’s popular blog “The Bloggess” in which she details her adventures as a mother, writer, and accidental taxidermy enthusiast. The narrative essays in her memoir read like a conversation with a friend. Only a really funny friend who’s funnier than your real friends. How your conversations would go if you were friends with cool people, like Tina Fey or Anna Kendrick or Jon Stewart or something. Lawson is willing to share the most ridiculous moments of her life, and they are brimming with glee and frankness. I originally wanted to include an extensive list of some of my favorites here, but I think it's better for Jenny to tell you about most of them herself. Just a tiny taste: she writes about one of her family's turkeys following her to school and making her husband buy her a taxidermied boar’s head she names James Garfield. Trust me, these are only scratching the surface. One of the most impressive things that Lawson accomplishes is using her humor to negotiate intimate human tragedy. She opens the chapter about her miscarriages with, “Okay, get prepared, because this chapter is kind of depressing and is about dead babies. I know. Ew.” When she talks about her anxiety, she details the embarrassing and jarring things she has said at parties, such as “I was stabbed in the face by a serial killer.” (Note: She wasn’t actually stabbed by a serial killer in the face.) It is obvious that humor is the lens through which Lawson feels comfortable talking about these topics, and instead of depersonalizing her, it manages to do the opposite. Instead of seeing Lawson as either an inhuman joke machine or a vat of depressing anecdotes, she is just a person, and one that we can deeply identify with at that. This is what kept her on the periphery of my subconscious long after I finished the book. I laughed aloud more times while reading Let’s Pretend This Never Happened than I did during David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, Tina Fey’s Bossypants, and Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? combined. And I love those books. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great book if you love wild and crazy comedy! *by C***N on November 11, 2025* Jenny Lawson’s book is comedy first, memoir second; the trains of thought free wheeling and hilarious. She loves a good rant and likes to protest against her “editor’s” suggestions. She has false chapters and enjoys intentionally blending the line between fact and fiction. She has fun with her writing and she does so in laugh out loud fashion. It tells of her life growing up in rural Texas and all of her animal encounters. Her father was a taxidermist and was always stopping his truck to pick up dead raccoons off the side of the road. They had many alive animals as well—waking up to her father bringing a bobcat into the bedroom wasn’t uncommon. There were dogs and cats and chickens and goats and foxes and squirrels and bats and snakes and many more. Her mother was a bookkeeper and was a stern and stable figure who reacted to all of her husband’s ridiculous antics as if they were totally normal. Lawson marries a man named Victor when she’s 24 and has a daughter and a family of her own. They move to Houston, and she thinks she’s escaped from the craziness of rural Texas. However, after a few years pass by, a part of her begins to miss it. Her sister, who also had a wild childhood, seems to miss it as well. There aren’t as many animals in the city and they feel cut off from their parents and their upbringing. Eventually they move back and recreate their eccentric childhood for their own children, this time with Grandpa and Grandma in the mix, Beneath the comedic surface Lawson struggles with mental illness and she’s open about it in her stories. She reflects on how her childhood depression led to eating disorders and bulimia and how her adult anxiety makes her word vomit horrible stories at parties. Thankfully, she has developed a sense of humor, however dark, as her coping mechanism and her shield. She channels it into her writing well (both in her books and on her blog). She writes about connection and loneliness and family dynamics in a way that we can all relate toH and her stories are charming and off the wall and embrace their weirdness. The book is both an exploration and a reflection of how absurd life can be. It should be served with a coke. ## Frequently Bought Together - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - Furiously Happy - Broken (in the best possible way) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1290807-lets-pretend-this-never-happened-a-mostly-true-memoir](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1290807-lets-pretend-this-never-happened-a-mostly-true-memoir) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-06-12*