It's finished.

Only took six years

Started writing my book proper in 2018.

Six years later it's finished.

If you ever wanted to know what's the deal with that woman, this is the book for you.

Fingers crossed 🤞🏿

I've resisted getting a book agent until now. But it's time, considering I got over 400k views on the thread that insipired An Ethnography of Black, White and Brown Working Class Men.

I posted the first half of the introduction to the book in this post. And here’s the January 2022 newsletter 'Radical honesty’, that made me determined to finish the book.

N.B The big reveal is NOT about me having ADHD. I wish it was that simple.

Writing this book has been an exercise in delayed gratification. It took six years to write but is all the better for it.

I don't feel particularly under pressure to find an agent. One will come along that's right for me. And I expect it will be published at some point. I'm in no real hurry. Got enough on my plate to deal with at

TRAWL

and with other journalism work.

Nonetheless I changed a word in the manuscript (plus added about 1000 words since I declared it was finished. Things evolve ya know)

My doomed twin had diagnosed me when dozens of doctors couldn’t.

Which is the point, really. We are so similar we may as well be brother and sister. Who fight.

So one of the things I forgot to put in my pitch (not sure it was necessary to do so as it may put an agent off) is part of the book is this meta thing of me struggling to finish writing the book (for reasons that are revealed later on)

I've enjoyed writing that in the last few months. I'm a very quick writer. Once I've thought something through I can write about 2000 words in an hour. Yet this book took 6 years to write... strange right?

Well if it ever gets published, you'll find out why!

Reach out if you are a book agent (or publisher) that works with foreign correspondents and journalists and want to read the rest.

Here's the second half: