
Published: 25/07/2019
Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019
Jean Hannah Edelstein was looking for love on OKCupid the night she lost her father. She had recently moved back to America to be closer to her parents, leaving behind the good friends, bad dates and questionable career moves that defined her twenties. But six weeks after she arrived in New York, her father died of cancer - and six months after that she learnt she had inherited the gene that determined his fate.
Heartbreaking, hopeful and disarmingly funny, This Really Isn't About You is a book about finding your way in life, even when life has other plans.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509863815
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 196 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 19 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Deft, witty and profound ... Jean Hannah Edelstein's writing glows with a peerless clarity that had me turning the pages all night. A stunning book.' - Jessie Burton
'One of the most brilliant writers of her generation, as witty, wry and unsentimental as Nora Ephron ... a magnificent book, about families, mortality, love and the hard, necessary work of becoming an adult.' - Olivia Laing
'Never sentimental, this memoir is by turns extremely funny and extremely sad; Edelstein is a wonderful writer, and this is a stunning book.' - Stylist
'A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir. Unsentimental but heartbreaking, the voice - true and clear. Brilliant.' - Nina Stibbe
'Jean Hannah Edelstein is an exceptional writer, simultaneously wry and heartbreaking.' - Nikesh Shukla
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Totally engaging memoir. Valiant, vulnerable, funny and immensely likeable. The structure works a deceptive magic of its own. While Edelstein keeps you hooked with the frankness of her style, she weaves past and... More

“I don't really understand the purpose of this book - not for me”
I know nothing about the author, but I was attracted to the book by the line “Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.”
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