Fresh, original, heartbreaking Reni Eddo-LodgeDevastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic Pandora SykesA must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant Stylist, SPRING MUST-READ BOOKS TO FEEL EMPOWEREDThis utterly distinctive memoir, written almost out loud in Nottinghamshire vernacular, hauls you into the world Lees grew up in... its shocking, funny, heart-rending and totally brilliant The Bookseller, EDITORS CHOICE MAY 2021What It Feels Like for a Girl says it like it is Evening Standard, BEST NEW BOOKS IN 2021Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesnt care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for talkin like a poof after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens theyre too skint to do up and marriages theyre too scared to leave.Its a new millennium, Madonnas Music is top of the charts and theres a whole world to explore - and Byrons happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottinghams kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britains most exciting young writers.