She is the author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers plus The Sunday Times Number One bestsellers You Got This and Mad Girl which were both nominated for British Book Awards. Barb’s own experience with alopecia is at first a curse and then a wonderful liberation, the catalyst to realising that she has spent much of her young life comparing her insides with everybody’s outsides.

A bittersweet Northern Irish romance that takes a new look at teen pregnancy, the magic and mess of first relationships, and a young woman's right to choose her own future. In this stunning retelling of Rapunzel, Barb must learn that she is so much more than her hair and that there is no such thing as a happy ending.Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. The YA fiction debut from bestselling author Bryony Gordon, Let Down Your Hair is a modern twist on Rapunzel featuring a hair influencer who develops alopecia – and her quest for a different sort of happy ever after.

One who isn't confined to her bedroom on the 12th floor of the tower-block flat she shares with her aunt making content. Mel and Sid are determined to do this together, but they soon discover that pregnancy is totally different for boys and girls.In 2017 she won the MIND Making A Difference Award for her work in changing the perception of mental health in the media. Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter? It just spends so much time talking about the world of social media influencers that the alopecia elements get shoved in at the end. Barb’s complex personal struggles — guilt that she’s ruined her loved ones’ lives, loneliness, lack of self-esteem, depression — are evoked with impactful, empathetic intensity.