The Ladder, Cathy Newman
The Ladder, Cathy Newman
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The Ladder

Author: Cathy Newman

Narrator: Harriet Dunlop

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/29/2024


Synopsis

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF Times The Ladder Offering inspiration and wise counsel from some of the world’s most acclaimed and influential women, this book is an insight and a trove of solidarity, turning over ideas of change, anger, illness, imposter syndrome, self-knowledge, purpose, how to not panic in a crisis and how to stop worrying you’re boring when there isn’t one. Amidst these pages are discussions with women who have achieved extraordinary things in their fields and pursuits, from politicians like Nicola Sturgeon and Angela Rayner to scientists like Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, activists like Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, film-makers like Waad Al-Kateab, religious leaders like Rose Hudson-Wilkin and broadcasters like Joan Bakewell.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tony on March 03, 2021

This book is ideal for anyone interested in careers education. That doesn’t mean it is only for careers advisors or leads in school; it’s for teachers, SLT, governors and employers. Please, if you are an employer and you recruit locally- who doesn’t? - read this book. Young people need you and you ne......more


Quotes

PRAISE FOR CATHY NEWMAN 'Modern, punchy and fresh' SUNDAY TIMES ‘Newman is a riveting teller of history …. A brilliant writer’ OBSERVER ‘A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing’ CAITLIN MORAN ‘For far too long, women’s achievements have been airbrushed out of history… Cathy Newman has done a bloody brilliant job of painting them back in bright, vivid colours’ NICOLA STURGEON