Book info

• Title Pageboy
• Author Elliot Page
• Year 2023
• Genre Memoir

Before the world premiere of Juno Elliot Page was on the edge of self-discovery. But with Juno's massive success and his dreams coming true, Elliot found himself trapped by the spotlight and the pressure to perform was suffocating him. Until enough was enough. From chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and working through his difficult childhood, Pageboy is a beautiful, intimate book about searching for ourselves and our place in the world.

Thoughts

It’s difficult to review a memoir like this that didn’t really work for me - it’s personal to the author and in this case, clearly took some bravery to piece together. But it felt very scatty and quite surface level. There are some huge topics included, and some pretty difficult events to hear about, but there’s not a lot about the effect of them or anything beyond the facts of what happened. The chapters jump around in time too, which isn’t always a negative thing but only help to make this quite difficult to follow and get invested in. The title, however, is genius and worth an extra point just for that.

Rating: 2 / 5