No Filters

I devoured this joint memoir… it is a warm and brave look at some of the mental health pressures our teenagers are dealing with – Alice O’Keeffe * The Times *
[An] unflinching memoir * Observer *
Strikingly honest… an eye-opening account of the mental health crisis gripping young people * Daily Mail *
An insightful, if tough, read… This engaging book sheds light on the boggling number of mental health issues faced by today’s teenagers – Katharine Spurrier and James Carey-Douglas * MAIL ON SUNDAY SUMMER READS *
I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times. No Filters is psychologically astute, totally honest, and beautifully written – JULIA SAMUEL
No Filters is about what it means to be a teenage girl and what it means to parent them. It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly – BRYONY GORDON
An incredibly brave, generous and important book, which challenged my thinking about parenting, yet also consoled me and made me feel less alone. Parents everywhere will be pressing it into one another’s hands – CLOVER STROUD
Full of compassion, honesty, insight and hope… This is a small book full of heart that will help parents and their teenagers understand the need for patience and empathy in a world that seems determined to divide us from each other, even from those we were born to love – DEREK OWUSU
Compassionate, honest, insightful and in places absolutely hilarious – MARK HADDON
This book blew my mind and heart apart. No Filters is a generous, wild, necessary exploration of inter-generational tension, class, gender, race, mental health, neurodiversity and social media. It is also riotously, outrageously, funny. Beyond all of this, it is a love story, between Gen X and Gen Z, between mother and teenage child – EMMA JANE UNSWORTH

Christie Watson is Professor of Creative Writing at UEA and has written eight books, including Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, which won the Costa First Novel Award. Her debut memoir The Language of Kindness was based on her twenty years working as a nurse and became a Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Christie contributes to The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and TedX. Her work has been translated into 23 languages and adapted for theatre.

Rowan Egberongbe wrote this book between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. She is now twenty-one and studying Classics at university.

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