We Are Each Other
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- ISBN 9781785124709
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 148 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'This raw and fearless exploration of life, loss and mostly love - it is totally unforgettable.' Elle's Most Hyped Books of 2026
'Beautifully written' - Telegraph
'Stunning, lyrical and deeply felt.' Clover Stroud
We Are Each Other tells Jess' story of becoming a mother while losing her own to a sudden terminal diagnosis. It's about loss, yes, but at its core it's about how we love when we are living on the threshold of life and death with someone central to our being and place in the world.
Jess' mother was the beloved Tessa Jowell MP. She lived a public life, but this is not the story of a public person - it's the story of a mother and daughter, walking both sides of life and death together.
The writing began as a way to metabolise her own experience, it tells the story of the way they loved, the way Jess grieved, and the way she renewed in that life-defining year. But the long and enduring journey of completing it over several years sharpened and galvanised its ultimate purpose to be about so much more than Jess and Tessa. It is ultimately for anyone who has loved and lost someone at the centre of their world and identity. That is its purpose: to give language and greater articulation to this most universal human experience.
Jess Mills is a writer, campaigner and musician. She began her career as a songwriter and recording artist, releasing her own music under the moniker SLO.
Since 2015, her work has expanded into the worlds of activism and public service. She is a part of the founding team Choose Love, the award-winning humanitarian organisation supporting refugees and displaced people worldwide, and is the CEO and founder of the Tessa Jowell Foundation, established to continue the legacy of her mother, the late Dame Tessa Jowell, after she died in 2018.
Jess is also the creator and host of the acclaimed podcast Human with Jess Mills, a series exploring extraordinary stories of resilience and transformation. We Are Each Other is her debut memoir.
