Nobody Asked For This

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Bringing together the collected works of bestselling poet Charly Cox for the very first time with new and exclusive material.
Nobody asked for this

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Nobody asked for this

Charly Cox lays bare the last decade of her life.

In this anthology of poetry, combining her bestselling collections She Must Be Mad and Validate Me, and with 70 new poems and handwritten annotations, she paints a complex picture of the formative experiences of womanhood and living with Bipolar II disorder.

From first loves, to lost loves, to the dark humour of mental illness, Nobody Asked For This is an intimate and unflinchingly honest exploration of growing up in the 21st century.

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Honest, relatable, and thought provoking. Stylist magazine

Funny and heartfelt and brilliant. Sunday Times STYLE

Relatable and funny. ELLE

Encapsulates what it is to be a young woman. Pandora Sykes

Divine. Cecelia Ahern

Author Bio

Charly Cox is a writer, producer and poet. Her writing focuses on destigmatising mental health and the coming-of-age of a young woman surviving the modern world. In January 2017, she published her first poem on Instagram, showing her internet followers her poetry for the first time; since then she's been asked to be Virgin Radio's poet in residence, she's been published on Refinery29, hosted poetry nights to raise money and awareness for MQ Mental Health and been named by ELLE magazine as one of their 20 power players to watch out for in 2018.