Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online (Paperback)
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Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online (Paperback)

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Paperback 304 Pages
Published: 25/04/2024
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'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' – Caitlin Moran
'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' – Bob Mortimer

Music journalist and self-professed creep, Harriet Gibsone, lives in fear of her internet searches being leaked. Is This OK? is an outrageously funny and painfully honest account of trying to find connection in the age of the internet – from bad MSN boyfriends, to the tyranny of Instagram mumfluencers.

Harriet spent much of her young life feeding neuroses and insecurities with obsessive internet searching (including compulsive googling of exes, prospective partners, and their exes), and indulging in whirlwind ‘parasocial relationships’ (translation: one-sided affairs with celebrities she has never met).

Suddenly, with a diagnosis of early menopause in her late twenties, her relationship with the internet takes a darker turn, as her online addictions are thrown into sharp relief by the realities of illness and motherhood.

'Very funny and deeply moving' – Sara Pascoe

'Hilarious and brutal! I could not put it down' – Lou Sanders

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035001002
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 208 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 18 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Laugh-out-loud-on-the-train funny . . . swings between silliness and profundity . . . This is a book to hold on to and one to share, a warning and a map created by a watchful girl, telling others what may lie ahead - Maeve Higgins, Guardian

This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining. - Bob Mortimer

Gloriously unfiltered, hilariously unhinged and utterly unlike anything else you'll read this year. Harriet's incredibly moving memoir made me laugh out loud, cringe, reminiscence and think deeply. What a wonderful introduction to a truly singular comedic voice; I remain in awe! - Yomi Adegoke

Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate . . . My mind is blown - Caitlin Moran, author of More Than a Woman

A hugely enjoyable read . . . [a] delight of a memoir - Otegha Uwagba, The Times

Very funny and deeply moving. - Sara Pascoe

Hilarious and brutal! I could not put it down - Lou Sanders

Brutally honest but brilliantly funny and poignant too . . . Utterly relatable - Glamour

A singular and truly funny voice - Jamie Demitriou

Deeply intense, and insane (in a great way). - Robert Popper, creator of Friday Night Dinner

Written with humour and intelligence - Stylist

A raw and funny memoir exploring mental health, illness and motherhood against the backdrop of obsessive internet and social media activity. - Huffington Post

Very funny and moving - Evening Standard

Devastating and funny as f*ck. I can't remember when I was last so struck by a voice . . . Harriet Gibsone is a SPECTACULAR writer - Terri White

Just read this from its giggly heights to its mortifying depths . . . I feel like I've been through something. Something really worth going through. - Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Eye-wateringly honest and all-too-relatable . . . funny and wise - Observer

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