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A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your lifeIn this sensational, agenda-setting debut, Michaela Coel, BAFTA-winning actor and writer of breakout series I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum, makes a compelling case for radical honesty.Drawing on her unflinching Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture, Misfits recounts deeply personal anecdotes from Coel's life and work to argue for greater transparency. With insight and wit, it lays bare her journey to reclaiming her creativity and power, inviting readers to reflect on theirs.Advocating for "misfits" everywhere, this timely, necessary book is a rousing and bold case against fitting in.
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"Some of it is very industry-specific, for example her warning that television risks losing its edge...But her central message is astute ..."
"No one else is making the kind of taboo-breaking, paradigm-shifting television that she is, and few have fought as hard, and compromised so little, to create it on their own terms."
"As it's a speech, nothing is explored with much depth — memorable moments from her adulthood take up fleeting space on the page ..."
"The vagaries of displacement and erasure evident in her work can be seen here - her immediate low-income environment enmeshed within the financial centre of Britain ..."
"I suspect it bears the same relation to the sum total of Coel's intellect that The Communist Manifesto does to Marx's."
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