Mad Woman, Bryony Gordon
Mad Woman, Bryony Gordon
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Mad Woman
Binge Eating. Menopause. OCD: How To Survive a World That Thinks You're The Problem

Author: Bryony Gordon

Narrator: Bryony Gordon

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 02/15/2024


Synopsis

Bryony Gordon presents the long-anticipated follow up to her phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller, Mad Girl.

Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effects 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 lesson 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.

(P)2024 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

About Bryony Gordon

Bryony Gordon writes a column in the Daily Mail and is the host of the podcast The Life of Bryony. She previously wrote for the Telegraph for twenty-three years, becoming one of the paper's best loved writers, and hosted the Mad World podcast. She is the author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers and Mad Woman, plus the Sunday Times Number One bestsellers You Got This and Mad Girl, which were both nominated for British Book Awards. In 2016 she founded Mental Health Mates, now a global peer support network which encourages people with mental health issues to connect and get out of the house. In 2017 she won the MIND Making A Difference Award for her work in changing the perception of mental health in the media. In 2018 she ran the London Marathon in her underwear. In 2020, she won the Journalists' Charity Award from the Society of Editors for mental health campaigning, and in 2023 she was a recipient of the Royal College of Psychiatrists President's Medal for improving the lives of people with mental illness.She lives in South London with her husband and daughter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shona

I love Bryony Gordon. How do I become friends with her?......more

Goodreads review by Tamara

Listening to this audiobook feels like listening to a voice message from a best friend. Each chapter is hilarious and the mental health insights were defo a wake up call for myself. I'm downloading all the other audiobooks from this author ASAP!......more

Goodreads review by Angela

Bryony writes honestly and openly about life with addiction and mental illness as well as mentioning the menopause as a woman in her early forties. On top of all of this, she is also a wife, mother, writer, marathon runner (twice!) and an all round inspirational person - even though she probably wou......more

Goodreads review by Kate

I have read/listened to the audio for most of Bryony Gordon's books. I really like Gordon and her honesty. I usually get a lot out of her books - specifically her personal thoughts and experience with mental health and addiction. I just don't really understand why she has written this book. It didn'......more

Goodreads review by Verity

A great book that resonated with me in many ways. Reading about a person’s lived experience is pretty powerful. Can’t wait to go to the author talk 😊......more