Chastened

This memoir of notches not carved is surprisingly readable, displaying a melancholy tenderness and candid self-awareness rarely found in confessional writing … Chastened feels like a genuine attempt to find a solution to a loveless life, and articulates the thoughts of many single women with a purposeful freshness – Ariane Sherine * Observer *
Her book is tender, clever, heartbreaking and funny … every single woman and man should read it before even thinking of going on a date again – Katy Guest * Independent on Sunday *
Fascinating, revealing and bravely honest work…Anderson focuses on the much-maligned concepts of love, courtship and the intimacies of chastity – Paul Blezard * The Week *
In the course of this sexless year, she flirts, texts and (platonically) romps her way through innumerable encounters…however with Chastened you get what it says on the cover: no Sex in the City – Melanie Mcgrath * The Scotsman *
Chastened is more than fashionable dinky. One hopes that Anderson will write the novels that are evidently within her * Independent *
Much ado about nothing…but comic and honest piece written by Anderson herself – John Crace/Anderson * The Guardian *
Thoughtful and insightful. Anderson manages to avoid the expected clichés and monotony by offering a considered combination of autobiography, psychology, feminist history, anthropology and sociology in her writing – Susan Swarbrick * Sunday Herald *
The elegant prose is meandering and poetic… [Anderson] imparts her wisdom with accessible and informative references – Immodesty Blaize * Guardian *
this candid account.. raises questions from a world more shocked by ‘chastity’ than ‘pole dancing’ – Emma Hagestadt * Independent *
This honest account is a real eye opener * Star Magazine *

Hephzibah Anderson graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature and has worked as a journalist ever since. She was Fiction Editor at the Daily Mail until 2007, and wrote on debut fiction for the Observer for five years. She now works freelance as a critic, feature writer and broadcaster for various British and international outlets including Vogue, Bloomberg Muse, and BBC Radio Five Live.

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