Burnout by Emily Nagoski

Burnout by Emily NagoskiThe gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what the world expects women to be is overwhelming and, so often, we exhaust ourselves trying to close that gap. How can you love your body when everything around you tells you you're inadequate? How do you 'lean in' at work when you're already giving 110% and still not recognised? How can you live happily and healthily in a world that constantly tells you you're too much or not enough? In their

he can make us feel sad or angry

The natural world is richly observed and Ruby’s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons

about a dog who lived with his family in the desert during the 1940s and early 1950s

for those who

Lady Cecily

Burnout reveals-

everything would be alright when he came first

delivering special gifts to her ten other aunts

A relentlessly gripping and deeply moving novel about the damage you do to yourself when you're young and think you're immortal

From the very start I was swept up

the nature of family life

' Samantha Maiden