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A Complicated Woman Signed Edition

The hotly anticipated literary debut by SELF ESTEEM

Rebecca Lucy Taylor author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group

Published:30th Oct '25

£22.00

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'A pin-up and an oracle for millennial women.'
Dolly AldertonSometimes when I drink wine out of a globulous glass with the thinnest of rims, blocking out the fact it's billed at £14 a pop, I think of baby Becky.

Hair so blonde it's neon white, cheeks so chubby you can't see her eyes. What must she think right now? She must think she made it.


We're a great big adult person.


That was always the plan, right?
In her extraordinary debut, with her trademark lyricism and razor-sharp wit, Mercury Prize-nominated musician and artist Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka SELF ESTEEM) takes us on a journey through womanhood - whatever the hell that means.Through the notes, lyrics and biting observational prose for which Taylor has become lauded, A Complicated Woman offers itself up as a subversive anti-Bible for any woman who has ever cracked under the weight of impossible expectation; who has done unto others the damage that has been wrought upon her; and who has discovered deep within herself a resilience that surprised her.A Complicated Woman is a cathartic scream of a book that gets to the heart of being a woman in the world today, and cements Taylor as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.

ISBN: 9781914240652-S

Dimensions: 214mm x 136mm x 28mm

Weight: 450g

224 pages