Christie Watson

Rowan Egberongbe

I devoured this joint memoir… it is a warm and brave look at some of the mental health pressures our teenagers are dealing with

Strikingly honest… an eye-opening account of the mental health crisis gripping young people

An insightful, if tough, read… This engaging book sheds light on the boggling number of mental health issues faced by today’s teenagers

Katharine Spurrier and James Carey-Douglas

I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times. No Filters is psychologically astute, totally honest, and beautifully written

No Filters is about what it means to be a teenage girl and what it means to parent them. It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly

An incredibly brave, generous and important book, which challenged my thinking about parenting, yet also consoled me and made me feel less alone. Parents everywhere will be pressing it into one another’s hands

Full of compassion, honesty, insight and hope... This is a small book full of heart that will help parents and their teenagers understand the need for patience and empathy in a world that seems determined to divide us from each other, even from those we were born to love

Compassionate, honest, insightful and in places absolutely hilarious

This book blew my mind and heart apart. No Filters is a generous, wild, necessary exploration of inter-generational tension, class, gender, race, mental health, neurodiversity and social media. It is also riotously, outrageously, funny. Beyond all of this, it is a love story, between Gen X and Gen Z, between mother and teenage child

This is such an important book and will be a lifeline for other teenagers going through mental health challenges - and their parents

A raw and unique book on mental health which gives the viewpoint of both parties involved. What is particularly helpful is understanding the cross generational experience and how today's modern life, including social media, affects both teenagers - and their parents

What a beautiful, poignant, astute and ultimately transformative book this is, brimming with wit and vivacity. No Filters is absolutely invaluable reading for anyone trying to understand the myriad challenges of being a teenager today. Christie and Rowan’s extraordinary candour made me sob, gasp and at times roar with laughter. Truly a love story for our age - and, whoa, how this mother and daughter can write. I wish I could prescribe it for every parent I know

How to Stay Sane (ish) During the Teen Years

'A mother-daughter guide to navigating a teenage mental-health crisis' THE TIMES 
'It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly' BRYONY GORDON 
 
How can we communicate better across the generational divide? 
 
When Rowan was sixteen, she experienced a mental-health breakdown. She and her mother, Christie, were barely speaking but they finally began to talk. Their conversations not only revealed the chasm between their generations, but also enabled Christie to really get to know her daughter – and in doing so, understand how she could help Rowan recover. 
 
In an age of polarisation, this is a book about how a mother and daughter find humour in the things that divide them and with it a way to connect. Its bare honesty will have you laughing – and possibly crying – out loud as it shows that you are not alone. 
 
'I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times' JULIA SAMUEL 
'Full of heart that will help parents and their teenagers' DEREK OWUSU 
'Incredibly brave, generous and important' CLOVER STROUD

Rowan Egberongbe

Praise for No Filters

I devoured this joint memoir… it is a warm and brave look at some of the mental health pressures our teenagers are dealing with

[An] unflinching memoir

Strikingly honest… an eye-opening account of the mental health crisis gripping young people

I devoured this joint memoir… it is a warm and brave look at some of the mental health pressures our teenagers are dealing with

[An] unflinching memoir

Strikingly honest… an eye-opening account of the mental health crisis gripping young people

I devoured this joint memoir… it is a warm and brave look at some of the mental health pressures our teenagers are dealing with

[An] unflinching memoir

Strikingly honest… an eye-opening account of the mental health crisis gripping young people

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