The extraordinary subversive literary debut from Mercury Prize-nominated musician and artist
Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka SELF ESTEEM) “A pin-up and an oracle for millennial women.” Dolly
Alderton In the beginning I was nothing. And then He made me: A sexualized form A
disappointing muse A biological clock A power-hungry Jezabel An object of abuse A
comfort blanket Forbidden Fruit Breasts and nice teeth. In her extraordinary debut
with trademark lyricism and razor-sharp wit Mercury Prize-nominated musician and artist
Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka SELF ESTEEM) takes us on a journey through womanhood - whatever the
hell that means. Through vignettes lyrics and biting observational prose A COMPLICATED
WOMAN takes us from Genesis through the Fall through tentative attempts to cast ourselves as
the Messiah in our own lives. It offers itself up as a subversive anti-Bible for any woman who
has ever cracked under the weight of impossible expectation who has done unto others the
damage that has been wrought onto her and who has discovered deep within herself a resilience
that surprised her. A COMPLICATED WOMAN is a cathartic scream of a book that gets to the
heart of what it is to be a woman in the world today and cements Taylor as one of the most
exciting voices of her generation.
