Let Down Your Hair: Bryony Gordon

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Friendless and lonely, living on the upper floors of a tower block with her aunt, thanks to her hair - the fetishized focus of her social media channel - Barb has hundreds of thousands of online “friends”. 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. I’m not saying I handled it well but I can’t imagine how I’d have coped with the news as a teenage girl. Mel's religious parents insist she must keep the baby, whilst Sid's feminist mum pushes for a termination.

It just spends so much time talking about the world of social media influencers that the alopecia elements get shoved in at the end. I understand that it’s meant to be part of a wider narrative about stress and mental health in young people.Introducing the YA fiction debut from bestselling author and journalist Bryony Gordon in a modern twist on Rapunzel and one girl's quest to find a different sort of happy ever after. When their relationship starts to fall apart under all the pressure, Mel finds herself feeling alone with the impossible dilemma of the Little Bang growing inside her.

I’ve since learnt that this is a very common reaction to stress, but at the time I just thought I was a freak. In 2017 she won the MIND Making A Difference Award for her work in changing the perception of mental health in the media.There is a lot to really enjoy in this story and there is great energy to the writing, as well as some fine characterization' - Peter James, award-winning and no. 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. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way.

And I very much enjoyed attempting to solve the case with Pip (who I now want to be my best friend). They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. Perfectly plaiting the brutal world of content creation, family tragedy and alopecia to create an ingeniously inspiring re-telling of Rapunzel, Bryony Gordon’s Let Down Your Hair is simply incredible. She gets out her mirrors and combs for a video and sees it … a bald patch the size of a ten pence coin, slap bang in the middle of her head. 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.Introducing the YA fiction debut from bestselling author and journalist Bryony Gordon in a modern twist on Rapunzel and one girl’s quest to find a different sort of happy ever after.