'Written with unflinching honesty, expansive humour and razor-sharp insight. A call to see and be seen, this is a memoir that will stay with me for a long time' Jenny Knight, author of Wild Moon Rising 'Funny and powerful' Daily Mirror 'If youve ever cringed at yet another wildly inaccurate representation of your working-class childhood, if your body doesnt conform to the absurd standards that social media demands of our health and ability especially as we age, if you know in your very bones that we do not live in a meritocracy now and we never have, and if love and grief and despair and possibility all make sense to you then you want to read this' Stella Duffy, author of The Hidden Room Refusing to be defined by others, Chopsy reclaims the right to tell our own stories, in our own words and on our own terms. Inclusive, insightful and inspiring, it embraces, challenges, and refuses to look away Victoria Bennett, author All My Wild Mothers, and curator of the Wild Women Writers Salons 'A triumphant success story about clearing a path for yourself and finding the freedom, words, and perhaps courage in mid-life to put pen to paper' Claire Malcolm, New Writing North 'Maya Jordan just doesnt know her place thank heaven for that. This book is bloody marvellous! A story for all of us "difficult" women. So much resonates with the lives of the women Ive known and worked with, and my own too' Linda Gask, author of Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change 'Thank god for Maya Jordan. And thank god for this book' Jennifer Cox, author of Women Are Angry
