Michaela Coel is the creator of the hit TV shows Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You. She is a BAFTA, Royal Television Society, Broadcasting Press Guild and NAACP prize-winning actor, screenwriter and director. In 2020, she was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people and British Vogue's list of most influential women. Misfits is her first book.
Astute ... Coel is a gifted writer. The text is razor-sharp and as
funny as I May Destroy You
*Sunday Times*
Warm and funny ... A perfect truth-teller of our time
*ELLE*
Searing ... A call-to-arms book filled with life lessons. Prepare
for this to be your self-help bible of 2021
*Sunday Times*
Her narrative power transcends the small screen. Coel's is a voice
that jumps off the page, and it's one we're lucky to have applied
to whichever story she chooses to tell
*Vogue*
Leaps off the page ... [Coel] hits hard: funny, but also direct ...
Coel is all about letting go of fear or, at least, of using it to
find your way to something better
*Observer*
This short and sharp piece of non-fiction once again shows Michaela
Coel as the magnificent thinker she is ... Misfits is profound,
hilarious, devastating and breathtakingly beautiful all at once
*gal-dem*
Misfits is, to be clear, a manifesto - a statement of values, a
call to arms. True to the form, you'll be urging it on people ...
Coel's manifesto does not attempt to be comprehensive or
systematic, but it's clear on what it wants to do and does it very
well ... I suspect it bears the same relation to the sum total of
Coel's intellect that The Communist Manifesto does to Marx's. I am
very glad both books exist
*Irish Times*
Coel makes her literary debut with a slim manifesto written with
the same perfect balance of sentiment, insight and wit that made
viewers fall in love with her on the screen
*Time magazine*
By turns wryly comic and devastating ... [Misfits] codifies her
efforts to achieve transparency in her work and in her life
*New York Times*
A small book with big ideas that provides revealing snapshots of a
career in television from the vantage point of an outsider ... That
Coel's original speech didn't bring about an instant revolution in
the industry would surely justify its transformation into a book
... A remarkable talent
*Guardian*
A sharp must-read for misfits everywhere
*Metro*
A riposte to what society deems as acceptable and how we can make
change happen through empathy and a celebration of difference
*Stylist*
The work of the writer and actor Michaela Coel is not the kind you
linger over, but the kind you swallow in a single gulp ... In
Misfits this narrative is given the rhythm and flow of speech;
reading, you feel as though you were hearing it live ... a piece of
writing that remains as relevant as it is powerful
*New Statesman*
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