Help Me!: One Woman's Quest to Find Out if Self–Help Really Can Change Her Life

Review

I love it! Hilarious and thought-provoking! Love! (Fearne Cotton)

Marianne’s writing makes me smile and has moved me to tears more than once. She combines a journalist’s no-nonsense investigative skills with a tenderness and honesty that sets her apart . . . In helping herself, it turned out that Marianne was helping all of us. (Erin Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said)

Sparkling . . . a laugh-out-loud odyssey, with embarrassing incidents and downright disasters aplenty. But the real triumph of the book is the way it transcends its "Bridget Jones gazes at her navel" premise to ask searching questions both about the purported effectiveness of self-help in the light of a multi-million dollar personal development industry; and about how we can really best find contentment. If you've ever worried that self-help might be a euphemism for self-obsession, then this is a book for you. (Bookseller)

Sublime and ridiculous, in equal measure. I tore though it hungrily. One minute I was having an existential epiphany, the next I was honking with laughter. Britain’s answer to Sarah Knight, with Amy Schumer’s naked hilarity and Matt Haig’s soul-deep profundity chucked in. (Catherine Gray, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober)

About the Author

Marianne Power is a writer and journalist who lives in London. Help Me! is her first book.