Bryony Gordon – författare

FROM THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

The fiercely funny and relatable new novel about people-pleasing, burnout and finding your voice - the perfect uplifting holiday read for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Alexandra Potter.

Insightful, inspirational and SO much fun Marian Keyes

People Pleaser is like therapy in rom-com form Beth O Leary

Completely addictive. A hard yes from me I flew through it Vogue Williams

Meet Olivia Greenwood. Unfiltered. Unashamed. Unapologetic. Or at least, she s about to be . . .

Olivia has been trying very hard to please people for a very long time.

Whilst her husband s doing burpees, she s doing everything else. She smiles through yet another opportunity that isn t a promotion. And she says yes to her mother, when what she really means is no.

But today, everything is going to change . . .

After soul-crushing career disappointment, a fiery young woman with a chip on her shoulder, and a single blue hallucinogenic gummy lead to a raucous night, Olivia wakes up the next morning, fresh out of f**ks to give and unable to please anyone but HERSELF.

So who actually is Olivia Greenwood when she s not trying to be what everyone else wants her to be?

Warm, witty and empowering, this is the story of one woman s journey to stop people-pleasing and start living for herself.

Praise for People Pleaser:

Oozing warmth, raw honesty and awkward relatable truths . . . just wonderful Adele Parks, bestselling author of Our Beautiful Mess

Riotously funny and sharply observed . . . a must read! Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things

Hilariously relatable

Witty, warm and great writing. Highly recommended

Made me laugh out loud

I genuinely struggled to put it down

''Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer'' Elizabeth DayIn the hotly anticipated follow-up to her SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*, MAD GIRL, Bryony Gordon shares her experiences of binge eating disorder (the most common eating disorder in the UK), sobriety, perimenopause and OCD.Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony 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.''A deeply reassuring essential read'' Sunday Independent''Visceral and honest'' Telegraph''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*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.

Bryony Gordon survived her adolescence by dreaming about the life she''d have in her twenties: the perfect job; the lovely flat; the amazing boyfriend. The reality was something of a shock. Her Telegraph column was a diary of her daily screw-ups; she lived in a series of squalid shoe boxes; and her most meaningful relationship of the entire decade was with a Marlboro Light. Here in the Sunday Times bestselling THE WRONG KNICKERS Bryony busts open the glamorized myth of what it means to be a young (perpetually) single girl about London town, and shares the horrible and hilarious truth. The truth about picking up a colleague at the STI clinic; sinking into debt to fund a varied diet of wine, crisps and vodka; and how it feels when your dream man turns out to be a one night stand who hands you someone else''s knickers in the morning.Bryony''s wonderfully ridiculous and ultimately redemptive story is essential reading for everyone whose ''best years'' weren''t quite what they were expecting...

THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICKA new Sunday Times bestseller from Bryony Gordon, Telegraph columnist and author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers. For readers who enjoyed Matt Haig''s Reasons to Stay Alive and Ruby Wax''s Sane New World, Mad Girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable, heart-wrenching, raw and jaw-droppingly truthful celebration of life with mental illness.

''I loved it. A brilliant fast and funny and frank look at something that absolutely needs to be talked about in this way'' Matt HaigBryony Gordon has OCD.It''s the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn''t repeat a phrase 5 times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. It''s caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. And Bryony is sick of it. Keeping silent about her illness has given it a cachet it simply does not deserve, so here she shares her story with trademark wit and dazzling honesty.A hugely successful columnist for the Telegraph, a bestselling author, and a happily married mother of an adorable daughter, Bryony has managed to laugh and live well while simultaneously grappling with her illness. Now it''s time for her to speak out. Writing with her characteristic warmth and dark humour, Bryony explores her relationship with her OCD and depression as only she can.Mad Girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable, heart-wrenching, raw and jaw-droppingly truthful celebration of life with mental illness.

The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times bestselling author of Mad Girl and Mad Woman, Bryony Gordon.

''A courageous account that will inspire us all - bloody brilliant'' Fearne Cotton

''An honest and damn funny book about daring to dream, about chafing and Vaseline, and running through the pain. I raced through it without getting a stitch'' Matt Haig

''The woman who made talking about your thinking not just acceptable but imperative'' Daily TelegraphBryony Gordon was not a runner. A loafer, a dawdler, a drinker, a smoker, yes. A runner, no. But, as she recovered from the emotional rollercoaster of opening up her life in her mental health memoir MAD GIRL, she realised that there were things that might actually help her: getting outside, moving her body and talking to others who found life occasionally challenging. As she ran, she started to shake off the limitations that had always held her back and she saw she had actually imposed them on herself. Why couldn''t she be a runner?

In April 2017, Bryony Gordon ran all 26.2 miles of the London Marathon. In Eat, Drink, Run., we join her as she trains for this daunting task and rises to the challenge one step at the time. Of course, on top of the aching muscles and blistered feet, there''s also the small matter of getting a certain royal to open up about his mental health. Through it all, Bryony shows us that extraordinary things can happen to everyone, no matter what life throws our way.

What readers are saying about Eat, Drink, Run.:

''One of the best things about this book is how Bryony manages to make you laugh, make you tearful, but ultimately hopeful about yourself and your own outlook on life and mental health''

''I laughed, I cried, I got inspired to run again''

''Bryony at her best by far! Honest, endearing, beautifully written. We all can relate in some way, if you are in doubt about how you feel, or indeed you are a person that says I can''t - read this because you can, we all can''

DARK, HONEST, UPLIFTING. THIS IS A SOBRIETY MEMOIR LIKE NO OTHER.''This is a book that tears down walls.'' Marian Keyes''Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer whose razor-sharp honesty slices through every sentence of this compelling memoir.'' Liz Day''Poetic, raw and very important.'' Fearne CottonBryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisation that she was putting herself in danger, time and again - saved her life. Known for her trademark honesty, Bryony re-lives the darkest and most terrifying moments of her addiction, never shying away from the fact that alcoholism robs you of your ability to focus on your family, your work, your health, your children, yourself. And then, a chink of light as the hard work begins - rehab; twelve-step meetings; endless, tedious, painful self-reflection - a rollercoaster ride through self-acceptance, friendship, love and hope, to a joy and pride in staying sober that her younger self could never have imagined.From the author of Sunday Times bestselling Mad Girl and Mad Woman, shining a light on the deep connection between addiction and mental health issues, Glorious Rock Bottom is in turn, shocking, brutal, dark, funny, hopeful and uplifting. It is a sobriety memoir like no other.

''Mental illness has led to some of the worst times of my life... but it has also led to some of the most brilliant. Bad things happen, but good things can come from them. And strange as it might sound, my mental health has been vastly improved by being mentally ill.''From depression and anxiety to personality disorders, one in four of us experience mental health issues every year and, in these strange and unsettling times, more of us than ever are struggling to cope. In No Such Thing As Normal, Bryony offers sensible, practical advice, covering subjects such as sleep, addiction, worry, medication, self-image, boundary setting, therapy, learned behaviour, mindfulness and, of course - as the founder of Mental Health Mates - the power of walking and talking. She also strives to equip those in need of help with tools and information to get the best out of a poorly funded system that can be both frightening and overwhelming. The result is a lively, honest and direct guide to mental health that cuts through the Instagram-wellness bubble to talk about how each of us can feel stronger, better and just a little bit less alone.

Introducing the YA fiction debut from bestselling author and journalist Bryony Gordon in a modern twist on Rapunzel and one girl''s quest to find a different sort of happy ever after. Barb may have zero friends IRL, but online, she is popular. Like, several-hundred-thousand-followers popular. Or at least, her hair is popular. Because Barb''s hair is glossy and beautiful. Which is why hairbrush manufacturers pay her stupid money for a 30-second clip. But most of the time Barb just wants to be a typical teenager, who has friends and a life. One who isn''t confined to her bedroom on the 12th floor of the tower-block flat she shares with her aunt making content. One who can go about her business without everyone obsessing over the way she looks. Barb just needs to save up some money to make a new life for herself.But it''s soon clear something isn''t right. Because when Barb runs her fingers over her scalp, she feels something smooth and different. She gets out her mirrors and combs for a video and sees it ... a bald patch the size of a ten pence coin, slap bang in the middle of her head.Barb has alopecia.In this stunning retelling of Rapunzel, Barb must learn that she is so much more than her hair and that there is no such thing as a happy ending ... just lots of complicated new beginnings.''At its core is the message all teens need to read: you are good enough, and your looks are not your sum total as a person (neither is your social media following). It''s a quick and engaging read we''ve been recommending far and wide.'' Independent