Notes to Self
Author: Pine, Emilie
ISBN: 9780241986226
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Radically honest and fiercely intelligent, the word-of-mouth #1 bestseller on modern womanhood and coming-of-age
'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'
In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal experience - on the emotional labour of caring for her alcoholic father, on the unspeakable grief of miscarriage and infertility, on the social taboos around menstrual blood and female pain, on the ways young women use their own bodies as a weapon against themselves. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, devastatingly poignant and yet never self-pitying, these pieces investigate and challenge society's assumptions around pain, strength, resilience and identity, ultimately embracing joy and hope in the business of living.
ISBN: 9780241986226
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 195mm x 128mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Radically honest and fiercely intelligent, the word-of-mouth #1 bestseller on modern womanhood and coming-of-age
'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'
In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal experience - on the emotional labour of caring for her alcoholic father, on the unspeakable grief of miscarriage and infertility, on the social taboos around menstrual blood and female pain, on the ways young women use their own bodies as a weapon against themselves. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, devastatingly poignant and yet never self-pitying, these pieces investigate and challenge society's assumptions around pain, strength, resilience and identity, ultimately embracing joy and hope in the business of living.
