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A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug


'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN

'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA FLETCHER

This book is written out of both hate and love for the world


As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others?

We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun.

In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again.

'Never have we needed her more' STYLIST

'I've loved her work for years' JO BRAND

'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPEST

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Critics Review

Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away. They're nostalgia mixed with the realisation of what we've been fed. Reminiscence leading to discoveries before the arrival of acceptance, healing and contentment. The perfect book about life to make you question what you think is true. I wish I could've read it sooner!
Giovanna Fletcher
funny, so smart and refreshingly honest
Sarah Millican
Poems to feed your soul: 480 pages of funny, wise and thought-provoking reflections on how to embrace ourselves and our lives, just as we are
Stylist
I've loved her work for years
Jo Brand
One of the best poets we have . . . I love Hollie McNish
Matt Haig
beautifully, quietly heartbreaking . . . this book is so good
Musa Okwonga
She succeeded in me seeing the world in an entirely different way . . . Raw, Visceral
Nihal Arthanayake
energising, fearless and joyful
Sara Pascoe
She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love
Kae Tempest
Hollie and her poems are a bold, funny, raw, rebellious delight
Liz Berry
One of the UK's top performance poets
DLuxe
Inimitable . . . bold, direct, down-to-earth writing that fearlessly questions all the warped and wily ways we have been taught to hate
Manx Independent
Author Hollie McNish
Narrator Hollie McNish
Duration 9 hours and 51 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405548397
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Memoirs, Poetry
Collections Pure Poetry
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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