A Complicated Woman : The hotly anticipated literary debut by SELF ESTEEM - Signed First Edition

by Taylor, Rebecca Lucy | Memoirs
Published 30/10/2025 by Octopus Publishing Group (BRAZEN) in the United Kingdom 
Hardback | 224 pages
222 x 138mm | 0g

Signed First Edition - Hardback 

'A pin-up and an oracle for millennial women.' Dolly Alderton

In the beginning I was nothing. And then He made me:

A sexualised form

A disappointing muse

A biological clock

A power-hungry Jezabel

An object of abuse

A comfort blanket

Forbidden Fruit

Breasts and nice teeth.

In her extraordinary debut, with trademark lyricism and razor-sharp wit, Mercury Prize-nominated musician and artist Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka SELF ESTEEM) takes us on a journey through womanhood - whatever the hell that means.

Through vignettes, lyrics and biting observational prose, A COMPLICATED WOMAN takes us from Genesis through the Fall through tentative attempts to cast ourselves as the Messiah in our own lives. It offers itself up as a subversive anti-Bible for any woman who has ever cracked under the weight of impossible expectation; who has done unto others the damage that has been wrought onto her; and who has discovered deep within herself a resilience that surprised her.

A COMPLICATED WOMAN is a cathartic scream of a book that gets to the heart of what it is to be a woman in the world today, and cements Taylor as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.