The Life-changing Magic of a Little Bit of Mess

Kerri Sackville is a genuinely funny writer and her comedic takedown of the tidying-obsession genre lands more often than it misses. The problem is that a premise this narrow — mess is actually fine, relax — can only carry so much weight over a full book, and the substantive advice thins out quickly once you have gotten the joke. A delightful long-form magazine piece stretched to book length.