No Filters

a mother and teenage daughter love story

Christie Watson, Rowan Egberongbe

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English

Chatto & Windus
21 January 2025

Memoirs; Social classes; Age groups: adolescents; Age groups: adults; Intergenerational relationships

Honest, funny, moving conversations about mental health, identity and contemporary issues between bestselling author and her teenage daughter

'Fascinating... a much needed conversation between generations' THE TIMES

How can we communicate when things are so painful? How can we connect when generational differences are extreme? How do parents and teenagers - and all of us - have real conversations?

When Rowan was sixteen, she only tolerated communication from her mother in the form of Snapchat. Desperate to be closer to her daughter, Christie sent daily selfies of her face superimposed onto a chicken nugget. It took serious illness for them to finally talk - and truly listen.

Rowan's mental health struggles revealed the chasm between their generations. They started being more honest with each other than they had ever been before- discussing identity, race, gender and neurodivergence; opening up about disordered eating and self-harm; navigating the perils of social media.

In an age of polarisation, this is how a mother and daughter find humour in the things that divide them and become more hopeful about the future of our world.

A book for all parents and teenagers going through a tough time, for friends, grandparents, teachers and healthcare professionals who want to help, its bare honesty will have you laughing - and possibly crying - out loud as it shows that you are not alone.

'I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times' JULIA SAMUEL 'Incredibly brave, generous and important' CLOVER STROUD 'It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly' BRYONY GORDON

By: Christie Watson, Rowan Egberongbe
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9781784744595
ISBN 10: 178474459X
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 21 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christie Watson (Author) Christie Watson is Professor of Medical Humanities at UEA and worked as an NHS nurse for over twenty years. She has written seven books, including her first novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, which won the Costa First Novel Award, and memoir, The Language of Kindness which was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Christie is a contributor to The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and TEDx, and her work has been translated into 23 languages and adapted for theatre. Rowan Egberongbe (Author) Rowan Egberongbe wrote this book between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. She is now studying Classics at university and spent the summer volunteering in Borneo.

Reviews for No Filters: a mother and teenage daughter love story

I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times. No Filters is psychologically astute, totally honest, and beautifully written -- JULIA SAMUEL No Filters is about what it means to be a teenage girl and what it means to parent them. It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly -- BRYONY GORDON An incredibly brave, generous and important book, which challenged my thinking about parenting, yet also consoled me and made me feel less alone. Parents everywhere will be pressing it into one another’s hands -- CLOVER STROUD This book blew my mind and heart apart. No Filters is a generous, wild, necessary exploration of inter-generational tension, class, gender, race, mental health, neurodiversity and social media. It is also riotously, outrageously, funny. Beyond all of this, it is a love story, between Gen X and Gen Z, between mother and teenage child -- EMMA JANE UNSWORTH A raw and unique book on mental health which gives the viewpoint of both parties involved. What is particularly helpful is understanding the cross generational experience and how today's modern life, including social media, affects both teenagers - and their parents -- LORRAINE CANDY