Dear Lilly, Peter Greyson – Review

TITLE: Dear Lilly
AUTHOR: Peter Greyson
PUBLISHER: iUniverse
PUBLICATION DATE: April 21, 2009
PAPERBACK PAGES: 268
GENRE:  Non-Fiction, Parenting Resource, Memoir

A father offers his advice, opinions, and the many useful stories gleaned from his past experiences in order to help his beloved daughter not only survive, but thrive in the dangerous and unpredictable world of young adulthood.

From the pen of a former abused child, drug addict, womanizing frat boy, and suicidal depressive, comes forth the emotionally stirring account of a young man’s battle with crippling inner demons and his eventual road to enlightenment. Peter Greyson calls upon his wisdom as both father and school teacher to gently lead teenage girls through a maze of truth, deception, and adolescent uncertainty. Greyson’s literary style sparkles with a youthful enthusiasm that will capture your heart and provide boundless inspiration.

Dear Lilly is a survival guide that offers the brutally honest male perspective to young women struggling for answers to life’s deepest questions. Topics include:

• Boys lie
• What every guy wants from his girlfriend
• Everybody hurts
• High school exposed

FROM THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS…Reading this book made me miss my own dad who passed away in 1993 when I was 15. If only more dad’s were this honest and open to share things about life perhaps our girls wouldn’t fall into too much trouble or feel closer to their own dad’s. I found this book to be an easy read, informational and even gave me ideas on how to talk to my children about different things in life such as friendships, drugs and alcohol, depression, safety, hope, body image – all things that touch a person’s life.