Attention Seeker
The Truth about ADHD
$25.93
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
What does it mean to live in a world that punishes distraction, but profits from our attention?
Why do so many ADHD individuals not feel at home at school or in the workplace? What does it really feel like to grow up, learn, work and exist in a world that wasn’t built for your brain?
Why are so many of us struggling with shame, burnout and - statistically speaking - a suspicious number of parking tickets?
“The recognit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349704173 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349704171 |
| Author: | Amber Medland |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
The recognition and validation is mind-blowing. I was reading Attention Seeker in floods of tears. – Emma Dabiri
Eloquent and considered … Hearing Medland share her experiences of ADHD in this lovely book is incredibly reassuring. – Kat Brown, author of NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS STUFF
I laughed and cried reading this. I wish someone had gifted me this book when I was 21 - everything would have made so much more sense. – Anoushka Lucas
About The Author
Amber Medland
Amber Medland is a writer based in Brixton. Her debut novel, Wild Pets, was published by Faber in 2021. She has been published in The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, The Paris Review, the TLS, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the FT, the Irish Times, and the Drift. She graduated from Cambridge University with a First in English Literature and an MPhil in American Literature, for which she was awarded two scholarships from Trinity College. Having moved to New York to study for an MFA at Columbia University, she was awarded a Teaching Fellowship and taught undergraduates non-fiction for two years.
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