Nell Frizzell is a journalist, writer and Vogue columnist. She has written and worked for the Guardian, VICE, the Telegraph, Elle, the Observer, Grazia and the BBC among many others. Her first book, The Panic Years, is an exploration of bodies, babies and the big questions facing modern life. Square One is her first novel. She lives in Oxford, in a very small house full of pasta and bedding and bikes.
Nell Frizzell's thoughts on womanhood and motherhood are as
informative as they are poetic. Writing that challenges and
enlightens you just as much as it entertains and stimulates you is
rare, this book confidently does both on an important and
complicated topic for modern women. * Dolly Alderton *
Searingly honest, witty and moving. For anyone who knows what it's
like to simultaneously want to weep with joy and throw your child
out of the window, Frizzell is a very welcome voice in the
conversation on motherhood. * Vogue *
There is so much about womanhood that feels indefinable. And yet
with her definitions of the flux, and the panic years, Nell manages
to define the indefinable - as well as uniting childfree women and
mothers, where the two are so often pitted against one another.
Lyrical, moving and thorough, this is a memoir, a feminist text and
a piece of social commentary. Every millennial woman should have it
on her bookshelf. * Pandora Sykes *
Wonderful... touching, helpful and enlightening. * Sara Pascoe
*
A compassionate, funny and beautifully written exploration of
contemporary womanhood - the book may have 'panic' in the title,
but Nell's words calmed and soothed me deeply. * Daisy Buchanan
*
Nell Frizzell is a master. In The Panic Years, she picks you
up and drops you deep inside herself and makes you see what she
sees and feel what she feels in a manner that is both jarring and
beautiful. I particularly recommend this book to men as it will
start to heal the rift between the sexes that capitalism has - if
not created - nourished and exploited. This book is a visceral
exploration of one young woman's life that has immediately
applicable lessons for us all. Vital reading. Lest my trumpeting
make you worry it's only "important," The Panic Years is
also fun, funny, and warm. I love it dearly! * Rob Delaney, writer
and star of Catastrophe *
Heartening, eye-opening, hilarious. I'm glad Nell has given this
weird time a term we can all use.
Smart and perceptive...Written with real humour and consideration
for the point at which every woman is in their life, this is a
must-read for 2021. * Stylist, best new non-fiction for 2021
*
Frizzell's compassionate, compulsive prose fizzes with imaginative
humour and metaphor. A memoir that's funny and heartfelt, personal
and political. * Evening Standard *
One of the most gripping, beautiful and euphoric glimpses of
motherhood that I have ever read. Frizzell is an engaging and
endearing narrator of this poignant memoir. * Telegraph *
Lively, informative... Nell uses her own experience generously and
the effect is inclusive, reassuring and funny. She articulates
feelings I've had but never quite explored - it's excellent * Amy
Liptrot *
Incredibly relatable and comforting, addressing the constant
comparison and confusion women often face. Frizzell writes
beautifully and poetically while reassuring and validating the
reader's concerns with hilarious anecdotes from her own panic
years. This is an important read for all women who are wondering
what should come next, and when. * Independent *
The Panic Years made me laugh and it made me cry. There's a
rare tenderness to this book that comes from not having felt seen
before. It's for our generation, and Nell gets it. She understands
and respects us. * Rhiannon Cosslett *
A wonderful, candid memoir about the personal and political
implications of motherhood, full of humour and fizzing prose. I
loved it. * Luiza Sauma, author of Flesh and Bone and
Everything You Ever Wanted *
For someone older, in a different set of panic years altogether,
part of the pleasure of this book lies in reminiscence, reflecting
and reframing. But it's also galvanising, engaging and enraging.
The personal is political, philosophical, emotional, and very
funny. I resisted the urge to highlight everything that made me
laugh, or think, or fired me up, because the whole thing would have
been one big neon block * Jenny Landreth *
Breathtakingly good * Lauren Bravo *
Informs, educates, entertains... This book will resonate with so
many readers. * Red's top picks of 2020 *
Brilliant * Grazia *
A must-read... sharp, funny, it chronicles all of the big decisions
a woman is expected to make between the ages of 25-40: where to
live, if they should marry, what to do with one's career. And that
other biggie: to have a baby or not. * Culture Whisper *
Ab-definingly funny, The Panic Years captures the female
experience perfectly. Discussing all of the large, looming
decisions women have to make between their late 20s and early 40s,
this is a must-read. * ES Magazine *
Offers advice and feminist learnings on how to survive when it
feels like everyone around you is becoming a parent. * Cosmopolitan
*
Wise, perceptive and refreshingly open...a memoir that feels
inherently personal to womanhood and what being a woman means. *
Culturefly *
A must read. Timely, honest, brave and funny calling for a new
kind of conversation about love, work and parenthood. * Daily
Mail *
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