Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Brutally honest as well as poetic' DOLLY ALDERTON
'Necessary, urgent and totally original' AFUA HIRSCH
'Intimately life-affirming . . . tackles enormously complex questions' CALEB FEMI

Someone once asked me how I'd want to be remembered.
I said, 'As the boy who grew.'

Diagnosed with ADHD as a child, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties to be a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations and his world exploded, he allowed himself to explore the pain he'd repressed his entire life.

Unsparingly digging into the fear, tenderness and trauma, Jordan Stephens discovers what it means to be a modern man and how the price we pay for love, in all its forms, is worth it.

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'Necessary, urgent, and totally original' AFUA HIRSCH
'Brutally honest as well as poetic. I'm totally beguiled by it' DOLLY ALDERTON
'Intimately life-affirming . . . tackles enormously complex questions. Essential reading for men of all ages' CALEB FEMI
'Jordan Stephens shares his life as a kaleidoscope adventure in full ADHD colour with immaculately told stories sharing the bad and the good. What a glorious book, and what a journey' KAT BROWN
'A brutal tour de force. Jordan's writing fizzes with vitality and urgency, and I was hooked from page one. He writes so beautifully about what it is to struggle as a young man today, and how hard it can be to build yourself when you haven't been given the necessary tools. Yet this is a tale of hope and optimism, and a book that every man should read' CHARLIE CONDOU
'Funny, shocking and downright f*cked up at times, it's like Jordan crawled into my brain and took notes' ASHLEY WALTERS
'Feels like late night deep chats and confessions with an old friend' JESSIE MEI LEI
'Comforting in its steady honesty' TICE CIN
'Stephens is a terrific stylist, his sentences belligerent poetry, a rhythmic rat-a-tat effect that assaults before it hypnotises' NICK DUERDIN - The i
'Energetic and unguarded . . . at its best this book serves as a welcome antidote to the misogynistic influence of Andrew Tate . . . Entertaining' COLIN GRANT Guardian, Book of the Day

Author Bio

Jordan Stephens is a writer and performer, best known as one half of the chart-topping duo Rizzle Kicks, who sold over a million records. Having been publicly open with his own struggles surrounding mental health, Jordan has been very active in creating awareness around the stigma. His mental health campaign #IAMWHOLE reached over 120 million people online and was mentioned in the Houses of Parliament. His children's book The Missing Piece was recently shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Prize.

@jordanfstephens