This Really Isn't About You (Paperback)
  • This Really Isn't About You (Paperback)
zoom

This Really Isn't About You (Paperback)

(author)
2 Reviews Sign in to write a review
£8.99
Paperback 272 Pages
Published: 25/07/2019
  • 5+ in stock

Usually dispatched within 2-3 working days

  • This item has been added to your basket

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

You may also be interested in...

Berserker!
Added to basket
£22.00   £16.99
Hardback
Undoctored
Added to basket
£9.99   £7.99
Paperback
The Salt Path
Added to basket
£10.99
Paperback
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Added to basket
Agatha Christie
Added to basket
£10.99   £8.99
Paperback
How Does She Do It?
Added to basket
£22.00   £11.00
Hardback
Doppelganger
Added to basket
£25.00
Hardback
And Finally
Added to basket
£10.99   £9.49
Paperback
Politics On the Edge
Added to basket
£22.00   £18.99
Hardback
Chums
Added to basket
£9.99   £8.49
Paperback
Everything is Everything
Added to basket
£22.00   £16.99
Hardback
American Prometheus
Added to basket
£12.99   £10.99
Paperback
The Escape Artist
Added to basket
£9.99   £8.49
Paperback
Landlines
Added to basket
£10.99   £8.99
Paperback
The Abuse of Power
Added to basket
£25.00   £21.99
Hardback
Abroad in Japan
Added to basket
£16.99   £14.99
Hardback

“Sassy, valiant, vulnerable... so likeable”

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

Hardback edition
Helpful? Upvote 25
Lucy-Bookworm

“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.”
As somebody who has cancer in the family,... More

Paperback edition
Helpful? Upvote 4

Please sign in to write a review

Your review has been submitted successfully.

env: aptum
branch: