Nobody Asked For This, 9780008639839
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Life falls apart, yet you’re still here. Nobody asked for this.
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Nobody Asked For This

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    29 December 2025

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Summary

Nobody Asked For This: Poems of Survival and Love

Publishing as a standalone collection for the first time, and featuring new, never-before-published poems

There will come a time where everything falls apart around you and somehow you are still there. Nobody asked for this, did they?

Charly Cox is not at all where she thought she would be, yet to be somewhere at all – to have reached thirty – is, in itself, miraculous.

In th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008639839
ISBN-10:0008639833
Author:Charly Cox
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HQ
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:29 December 2025
Weight:100g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 7mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘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

About The Author

Charly Cox

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 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.

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