Our book editor Naomi Round here with 5 new books that you should add to your reading list, including It, ‘s Not Always Depression & I Have Lost My Way.
It’s Not Always Depression by Hilary Jacobs Hendel
A cutting-edge and accessible psychotherapy resource which we can use to put us back in touch with our emotions – and fast! In this practical and fascinating new account of psychological suffering, pioneering psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel shows that we should focus not on cognitive behavioural therapy or medication, but on our emotions.
She Must Be Mad by Charly Cox
The bestselling poetry debut of 2018, this witty and heartfelt book introduces poetry to the Instagram generation. This book includes a range of charming poems which focus on destigmatizing mental health, and the coming-of-age of a young woman surviving the modern world.
Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
Women Don’t Owe You Pretty is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy! In this book you’ll learn how to protect your energy, discover that you are the love of your own life, and realise that today is a wonderful day to dump them.
I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman
Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to run away from home to find the boy that he loves, and Nathaniel is arriving in New York City after a family tragedy leaves him isolated on the outskirts of Washington state. After the three of them collide in Central Park, they slowly reveal the parts of their past that they haven’t been able to confront, and together, they find their way back to who they’re supposed to be. Told over the course of a single day from three different perspectives, this is a story about the power of friendship and being true to who you are.
A Quiet Kind Of Thunder by Sara Barnard
Steffi doesn’t talk, but she has so much to say. Rhys can’t hear, but he can listen. Their love isn’t a lightning strike, it’s the rumbling roll of thunder. Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life – she’s been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He’s deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she’s assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn’t matter that Steffi doesn’t talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she’s falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.
