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I strongly suspect that if you're going to consume 'celebrity' audiobooks, it's probably more meaningful if you have some idea who the so-called celebrity is. I don't know anything about Daniella Moyes - or rather I didn't before I listened to her book 'Jump'.

The book follows her through a difficult childhood (mother with cancer, distant and angry father) through school (let out early for not really knuckling down) then out into the world of 'work' (standing around in a bikini looking pretty), travel (getting Dengue fever in 'Thighland' - seriously she can't say Thailand), work again (getting to be a sort of famous Irish DJ - it's a small pond), lots of drugs and bad choices about men and alcohol, having a colossal breakdown, going off to find herself in South America and......blah blah blah.

I liked the first half. I liked the tales of growing up, getting her first job, going to Thigh-land and getting sicker than a dog with the Dengue. I played her breakdown in the car with my husband (who is currently suffering PTSD) beside me, and he was really moved by a lot of what she said. He nodded along wisely. THEN, along came the second half and I didn't love it quite so much - she went off on her travels and behaved like nothing she'd ever learned about herself counted for anything before solving all her issues in a ludicrously convenient way.

It was like listening to a slow-motion car crash as she boasted around South and Central America doing way too many drugs and not so much trying to find herself as trying to run away from herself. "Why is she doing all these stupid things?" asked hubby.

I can only conclude it was to fill out a book.

And the ending