'Informative and bold' Dr Karen Gurney | 'Compassionate, artistic, tasteful' Joshua Fletcher

What is the most personal thing you've asked the Internet? Illustrator Hazel Mead turns to Google to uncover what we secretly ask search bars about our relationships, bodies and identities. With hundreds of demystifying and empowering illustrations, she offers a fun, shame-free and inclusive guide to life's big questions. This is the emotional curriculum you'll wish was taught in every classroom.

What if there was a book that explored the big lessons of life? Sure, formal education will equip you with requisite knowledge on photosynthesis. But when it comes to spotting the green flags in a prospective partner, navigating yours or a loved one's grief, knowing how to prepare for a cervical screening, or to practicing self-defense, it can feel like total guesswork.

Using the latest research, interviews with experts, and her signature visuals, Hazel interrogates the taboos that shame us into silence. Since the answers to life's big questions are rarely black and white, she answers them in colour, with accessible design and compassionate reflections. Why Aren't We Talking About This?! is an exploration of the things we're too afraid to ask but desperately need to know and talk about for greater acceptance of others and ourselves. It's a bold invitation to forget normal and embrace what makes you unique.

About the Author
Hazel Mead is a freelance illustrator from a family of artists. She likes to use her art to start conversations and question taboos and social norms to help everyone feel like they can be themselves. She has worked with Adobe, Netflix, Plan International, VICE, Bloody Good Period and a plethora of wonderful social good egg orgs and sex toy companies to create images with a message.

Reviews
Hazel's work is as informative as it is entertaining ... An exciting, bold new voice * Dr Karen Gurney, Clinical Psychologist & Psychosexologist and author of 'Mind the Gap' *
When compassion, artistic skill and tasteful psychoeducation combine, you get Hazel Mead. * Joshua Fletcher, author of 'Anxiety: Panicking About Panic' *



Book Information
ISBN 9781529902617
Author Hazel Mead
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Square Peg
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 674g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 179mm * 20mm