Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms
By (Author) Nicola Slawson
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Home
13th May 2025
13th February 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Relationships: friends / peer groups
Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues
Biography and non-fiction prose
306.8153
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 152mm, Height 234mm, Spine 30mm
440g
Description
In Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms, leading journalist and advocate for singles Nicola Slawson shares her insights and experience from a decade of single life.
Taking an open and honest look at the challenges of singledom, but just as keenly celebrating its joys and opportunities, the book will bring companionship, insight, succour and inspiration to its readers. Around 40 per cent of UK adults are single at any one time. Far from being a transitional state between relationships, singledom can offer freedom, self-discovery and self-determination. At the same time, there are challenges, from social to economic. How do you handle cancer treatment if you are alone Who do you call if you're stranded out late at night If you don't find the right person to have a baby with, should you become a parent alone Nicola explores being single in a world designed for couples, and how to make the most of life in the face of stigma and misunderstanding. If you are newly single, long-term single, avowedly single, reluctantly so, considering leaving your current relationship or just wondering what to say to your aunt when she asks if you'll ever get married - this book is for you.Chapters cover all aspects of single life, from dating apps to navigating friendships when it feels like everyone is coupling up except you, and from parenting after divorce to the rise of incels in society. Along the way, Nicola interviews the key single voices of her generation, as well as the lives of iconic singles of the past. With thorough research, lived experience and wry humour, this book is an essential guide to living a complete life on your own terms.Reviews
Nicola manages to do a rare thing: she shows compassion for single people without pitying them. She celebrates their narrative while also understanding that they might change how they feel about it from one month to the next. And she helps them to search for connection in many different places, as well as to understand themselves better. I wish The Single Supplement existed when I was single. * Natasha Lunn *
Author Bio
Nicola Slawson is a freelance journalist, writer and public speaker who has written opinion pieces and features focusing on single life for the Independent, the i paper, Refinery29, HuffPost and Positive News. Her award-winning newsletter has been featured in the Guardian, HuffPost, the Evening Standard, Women's Health, Stylist, Mashable, the Irish Business Post and the French edition of Slate. In 2020, she was chosen by the i paper, alongside the likes of Poorna Bell, Tracy Brabin, Africa Brooke and Louise Minchin, as one of 14 women who have changed the conversation about issues that affect women.
