Ten Lives

This book explores how deeply relevant inequality is - how it moulds our minds and bends our moralities. It’s the most vivid and readable exploration of the wealth gap I’ve ever read. Anyone who cares about a better future should read this – BRIAN ENO
An astonishing book. Chalabi’s taboo-busting transparency about peoples’ financial lives is revolutionary enough. But it’s the pellucid clarity of her data visualizations that will really change how you see things. I was riveted from start to finish – ALISON BECHDEL
As a lifelong arithmophobic, I didn’t think a book full of stats, graphs and data would interest me – but I lapped Ten Lives up in two sittings. Mona Chalabi’s writing is captivating, and her data illustrations are both beautiful and demystifying. A fascinating, compelling read – KATHY BURKE
Mona Chalabi transforms raw data into a deeply human tapestry. Ten Lives is a fresh, creative and extraordinarily moving unpicking of our relationship with money. It cuts through the shame and silence surrounding class, income and wealth to deliver a clarion call for honesty and connection – KATE PICKETT, author of The Good Society
This [is a] brilliant, essential and riveting book, which I guarantee will be like nothing else you have read * Bookseller *
Mona Chalabi reveals with frank, engaging precision what we’re all really wondering about. Utterly satisfying, informative and funny – LIANA FINCK, author of Let There Be Light
Chalabi has a rare ability to tease out the human stories buried within data to illuminate uncomfortable societal truths – TESSA HULLS, author of Feeding Ghosts
Mona Chalabi turns economic analysis into gripping human drama. Eye-opening, infuriating and visually sumptuous – LAUREN REDNISS, author of Oak Flat

Mona Chalabi is an award-winning writer and illustrator. Her work has earned her a Pulitzer Prize, honorary fellowships at the British Science Association and the Royal Society for the Arts, an Emmy nomination, and recognition from the Royal Statistical Society. In recent years, her art has been exhibited at the Tate, the Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her writing and illustrations have been featured in the Guardian, New Yorker and New York Review of Books.

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