Review: Please Read This Leaflet Carefully

Ok, so when I write book reviews I usually write them quite conventionally: here’s what the book’s about, this is what I did/didn’t like, this is why it is/isn’t clever, if you like x, y, and z you will/won’t love it, and so on. But I think I’m going to go a bit off-piste with this one because I have too many feelings, so sit down and grab a cuppa, because we are about to have a conversation — if quite a one-sided one.

But first: buy this book. Buy it now. Don’t even finish reading this review before you buy it, because then someone else might buy it before you and you might have to wait longer than you already have to get your hands on it, and that would be Very Bad Indeed.

Have you bought it? Ok, good. So, here’s why you should be excited.

“For years, I’ve considered it an established fact that the female body is a pain in the ass. The male body seems like a sunny campsite in comparison.”

Living in New York City in her thirties, Laura is a newly-single mother trying to come to terms with a body still wracked by pain, caused by the endometriosis that has left her internal organs scarred and fused together. In this book, her pain takes centre stage, and the reverse chronology from present day to…