Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs

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A01=Jordan Stephens
ADHD
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development
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growth
heartbreak
identity
male friendships
masculinity
mental health
mixed-race
neurodiversity
race
relationships
self-love
toxic relationships

Product details

  • ISBN 9781838858117
  • Weight: 222g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Brutally honest as well as poetic' DOLLY ALDERTON

'Necessary, urgent and totally original' AFUA HIRSCH
'Intimately life-affirming . . . tackles enormously complex questions' CALEB FEMI

Someone once asked me how I'd want to be remembered.
I said, 'As the boy who grew.'


Diagnosed with ADHD as a child, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties to be a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations and his world exploded, he allowed himself to explore the pain he'd repressed his entire life.

Unsparingly digging into the fear, tenderness and trauma, Jordan Stephens discovers what it means to be a modern man and how the price we pay for love, in all its forms, is worth it.

Jordan Stephens is a writer and performer, best known as one half of the chart-topping duo Rizzle Kicks, who sold over a million records. Having been publicly open with his own struggles surrounding mental health, Jordan has been very active in creating awareness around the stigma. His mental health campaign #IAMWHOLE reached over 120 million people online and was mentioned in the Houses of Parliament. His children's book The Missing Piece was recently shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Prize.

@jordanfstephens

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