Her fiercely empowering and inspirational debut draws on the same kaleidoscope of ideas and emotions as her hit TV shows and will inspire readers to reflect on their own relationship to power. Misfits by Michaela Coel - Penguin Books Australia Published: 19 October 2021 ISBN: 9781529148251 Imprint: Ebury Press Format: Hardback Pages: 128 RRP: 21. By turns inquisitive, devastating, beautiful and hilarious, Michaela’s storytelling forever urges us to think again. This is a powerful and sensational manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life. Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy and inclusion from all who are 'different'.

It is a sharp and rousing argument not to try to fit in.

Within these pages, she recounts stories from both life and work which are utilised to argue for greater transparency, and with insight and wit, it lays bare her journey to reclaiming her creativity and power, inviting readers to reflect on theirs. This topical, necessary book, laced with deeply personal anecdotes, advocates for outsiders. With spunk and humour, Coel tells about her struggle to be herself in a world that demands the opposite. Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy and inclusion from all who are 'different'. Michaela Coel has felt like an outsider all her life. But many are also seen as outsiders because life looks at them differently. There is no doubt a lot of us can relate to this sentiment I know I certainly can. My friends were all misfits-a huge gang of commercially unattractive, beautiful misfits, who found the mainstream world unattractive'. In just one of the quotes within it, she states: 'What carried me through was the abundance of black girls, white girls, mixed girls-misfits. Inspired by her acclaimed and unflinching Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggert Lecture in 2018 in front of an audience 4,000 strong, Michaela Coel’s passionately argued and devastatingly articulate manifesto for greater transparency and radical honesty is a clarion call for speaking truth to power. Misfits is exactly my type of book a book for those who understand, celebrate and value individuality over conformity and a fantastic and much-needed, agenda-setting literary debut.