
A Complicated Woman
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781914240652
Publication Date: 01/06/2026
The extraordinary, subversive literary debut from Mercury Prizenominated musician and artist Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka SELF ESTEEM)
“A pinup and an oracle for millennial women.”
Dolly Alderton
In the beginning I was nothing. And then He made me:
A sexualized form
A disappointing muse
A biological clock
A powerhungry Jezabel
An object of abuse
A comfort blanket
Forbidden Fruit
Breasts and nice teeth.
In her extraordinary debut, with trademark lyricism and razorsharp wit, Mercury Prizenominated 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 antiBible 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.
“A pinup and an oracle for millennial women.”
Dolly Alderton
In the beginning I was nothing. And then He made me:
A sexualized form
A disappointing muse
A biological clock
A powerhungry Jezabel
An object of abuse
A comfort blanket
Forbidden Fruit
Breasts and nice teeth.
In her extraordinary debut, with trademark lyricism and razorsharp wit, Mercury Prizenominated 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 antiBible 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.
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