Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth

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My own one isn’t very good, to be honest, though he has to be fair presented stuff I’ve asked him to to the correct authorities in government. Since winning the seat of Birmingham Yardley in 2015, Phillips has published two books and become a powerful activist for woman’s rights with her speeches in Parliament becoming headline news. In ‘Everywoman’, Jess shares her political experiences and recollections of a life lived in the public eye.

She unearths a fascinating story about a fisherman's wife, Lillian Bilocca, who campaigned in the 1960s for safety on British trawlers after the death of fifty-eight fishermen. Before she entered parliament, Phillips worked for the charity Women’s Aid, and she continues to speak up for domestic-violence victims. This is a plain-talking, no-nonsense account of Jess Phillips' life, how she got into politics, and her opinions on certain key issues, such as abuse against women. Jess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, tells us many times that she is gobby and that she has a loud voice. Even if you don’t agree with Jess Phillips’ political views at all, this is an important book to read and I would highly recommend it.

You might also enjoy Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly. The only women who treat their relationships as a hobby are vulnerable, unlike the men, who presumably have no context of their own. The parts of the book which deal with her work with and campaigning for women who have suffered violence and domestic abuse broke my heart.

I can't say I'm a fan of Phillips either, and after reading this I respect her more, but am no more fond of her, finding her hypocritical and self-important, even if the abuse she gets is undeserved. I had my view of Phillips before I picked this up and was prepared to hear her story, but I haven't been converted. At times, it is something of a depressing read, not least because you feel she's beating her head against a brick wall. Viking Life, Penguin Life and Pamela Dorman Books to launch lifestyle publishing programme in January 2020.Damian Barr 'Everywoman has all the laughs [of Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran] with a backbone of real glinting anger . Whilst the Evening Standard said, “Phillips comes across as great company — not just passing the “Would you go for a drink with her?

Phillips cares a great deal about physical and sexual abuse, about the wage gap and career development, about online bullying and so on - but she just doesn't seem to have noticed that all of these issues disproportionately affect women who also belong to other marginalised groups.This book really is like reading a transcript of your cleverest, funniest friends talking about what’s getting their goat, at that point where the prosecco has made them sparkly and before it makes them silly. Written shortly after Jo Cox’s death, she examines how the stakes are set for women in positions of power and how to deal with attempts to silence women’s voices. She captures so brilliantly the confusion of being a teenage girl, being aware of her sexuality but unaware of some men’s bad intentions.