How to Be Hopeful

This might just be the best “wellbeing” book I’ve ever read. It made me laugh, cry, and reflect deeply on the last decade of anxiety-inducing internet life. Caitlin has done what she does best: holding up a mirror to some of our harshest modern realities with playful storytelling, wit, and wonder. This book made me realise just how unkind so many of us have been to ourselves in this fast-paced, status-obsessed world. It reminded me that we might all be better off spending more time sitting in the garden, watching the birds… and maybe even buying a Streetmaster Pro. – Emma Gannon, author of ‘The Success Myth’ and ‘The Creative Compass’

Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home-educated on a council estate in Wolverhampton. She published her first novel at 16 and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has won Columnist of the Year seven times and has also been named Interviewer and Critic of the Year. Her million-selling groundbreaking feminist memoir How to be a Woman was voted one of the Sunday Times ‘Most Important Books of the Twenty-First Century’.

Caitlin’s other books have also been bestsellers, and How to Build a Girl was made into a film starring Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. Her Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves, co-written with her sister Caroline Moran, won a Rose d’Or for Best Sitcom. Her Who’s Who entry lists her interests as ‘cava, eyeliner, hair embiggening, and The Struggle’.

She lives in North London with her husband and two children, and, after following all her own advice, she really is hopeful now.

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