'A deep and soulful meditation on what it means to be a woman powerful insight into living through the unenlightened attitudes of the Seventies and Eighties.' -- Sunday Times 'She explores the idea that functionality is connected to an individuals worth with grace and dark humour.' -- Irish Times 'A joyful, angry, beautiful air-punch of a book, and so truthful I felt as though each word was written on my own body.' -- Kirstin Innes A vivid framing of the mystery, confusion and even terror tangled up with our young bodies in the 70s. -- Mary Anne Hobbs By turns poignant and searingly honest, this book is a wise and witty reflection on all that it means to have a body. -- Claire Askew "I love Catherine Simpsons work One Body is the story of what it is like to exist in a womans body. Its fresh, insightful and moving, and its a book that every man should read." -- Graeme Macrae Burnet 'A cracking read.' -- Janice Forsyth, BBC Scotland 'A brilliant, raw, perceptive and illuminating memoir.' -- Rosemary Kaye, Scones and Chaises Longues Simpson reveals in an often hilarious book how she confronted her devastating diagnosis, and how it made her love her body again. -- Mail on Sunday 'Funny, bold, wry and, at times, enraging in the best possible way, this exploration has an incredible energising quality imbued with spirit and a real passion for life.' -- Mary Paulson-Ellis It packs the wallop of a wrecking ball but reads as easily as a page-turner. -- Lucy Ribchester, The List
