"ImPerfukt...and never happier!" is a gutsy and quirky memoir recounted through the lenses of humour and humility; brains and brawn; stupidity and sexuality; partnering and parenting. Gritty, off-beat, sexy, and cringe-worthy, her life mimics the reality of a true, roller-coaster life.

ImPerfukt is a celebration memoir of author, Heidi Patullo’s first 50 years, beginning with a hilarious imagining of her own conception and ending on her 50th birthday — a time less about the party than about celebrating her arrival at the dawn and door of a genuine and genuinely happy life. The genre of memoir suggests revelation, and hers reveals. It confesses and makes amends, too.

These candid tales of Patullo's life, as she moves from feigned perfection, through recovery from both it as well as codependency, are laid out in chapters, called “Acts”. Clearly, this reinforces the notion that the author was not acting of her own accord or with self-awareness much of her life.

But these “Acts” are not staid narratives. Luckily for the reader, this unknown writer's life is brought to life through delightfully descriptive paragraphs filled with sensory details — beyond sight and smell.  And, she surprises with lists, rants and asides. Patullo is a poet, too. Overall, it's a chatty, conversational experience for readers.

Each of the “Acts” closes however with calming pieces, referenced in the pages preceding with the initially unexplained letters “WPW”. One learns organically that they correspond to twenty “WonderPonderWander” segments. She uses the Roman numerals from I to XX for these reflective and poetic, even wise, writings. Clearly questioning herself, thoughtful readers too, find pause, perhaps even takeaways, from within her musings.  Each begins: "I have a new wonder that I pondered as I wandered and it is this: ...". Irrespective of their issuance from her own salient quandaries conundrums, we seem glad for their inclusions. Ditto for her various poems. She writes with a unique voice, addressing with keen insight and sound lyricism both parenting and partnering issues; in other words, she is a good poet. For some readers, the poetry may be the book’s best feature.

"ImPerfukt...and never happier!" journeys  through funny and poignant doings and undoings —  the bulk falling under the “intimate relationships” banner. The mess, the pretence and deceit, the fall-out, the concealed pain... it's all in there.  At its completion the author shows she has arrived, as desired, at the new/bettered version of her self. Truly, the author, knowing that her life became laughable where it once was laudable, offers a wish to her readers. In the Introduction of her memoir she states, “Use my life for your laugh”.  This memoir is evidence she knows the importance of laughing at ones fallibility; she overtly and generously encourages others to use her words as a healing source, especially when lacking the same from their own lives. She knows "she who laughs last, lasts." More astutely, she highlights nobody ultimately lasts, so choose to laugh while one can! Who can argue that?