Título: Mad Woman
Autor: Bryony Gordon
Sinopse: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
'A deeply reassuring essential read' Sunday Independent
'Visceral and honest' Telegraph
'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day
'Bryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental illness...she really helps people tackle their own stuff. Her writing has helped me before and this will be another hit' Matt Haig
'A startlingly candid book' Daily Mail
'Gordon injects lightness into the darkness as she recounts her relapse into OCD and subsequent steps to recovery' Red Magazine
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*, MAD GIRL
What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad?
Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effect it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in? What has she learned, and why have her views on mental health changed so radically? After coming out the other side of the biggest trauma of our living memory - a global pandemic - existing in a state of perma-crisis has now become our new normal.
From burnout and binge eating, to living with fluctuating hormones and the endless battle to stay sober, Bryony begins to question whether she got mental illness wrong in the first place. Is it simply a chemical imbalance, or rather a normal response from your brain telling you that something isn't right? Mad Woman explores the most difficult of all the lessons she's learned over the last decade - that our notion of what makes a happy life is the very thing that's making us so sad.
Bestselling author Bryony Gordon is unafraid to write with her trademark blend of compassion, honesty and humour about her personal challenges and demons, which means her books and journalism have had profound impact on readers. She founded the mental health charity, Mental Health Mates, which has become a vast online community.
*Bryony Gordon's Mad Woman was a Sunday Times bestseller on 18th Feb 2024.
*Bryony Gordon's Mad Girl was a number one Sunday Times bestseller on 12th June 2016.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Mad Woman”, de Bryony Gordon, publicado pela editora Headline, em 2024 e com 320 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Headline
Páginas: 320
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1035408686
ISBN13: 9781035408689
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Headline costumam apresentar narrativas marcadas por tensão crescente e personagens que enfrentam dilemas intensos, sejam eles em ambientes históricos, contemporâneos ou fictícios. O catálogo revela uma predileção por thrillers policiais e espionagem, onde investigações e perseguições desenrolam-se com ritmo acelerado, ao lado de aventuras ambientadas em épocas como o Império Romano e a Segunda Guerra Mundial, que misturam ação e intrigas políticas. Também há espaço para histórias de reconstrução pessoal e dramas humanos em cenários reais, como pequenas comunidades e cidades históricas, com um tom mais emocional e intimista. O contraste entre obras mais narrativas, focadas em personagens e ambientações detalhadas, e outras mais ágeis e centradas no suspense, oferece uma experiência de leitura que varia entre o envolvimento emocional e a adrenalina.
