Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth

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I picked up at the library simply because I was browsing all the books in the same dewey number as a suffragette book I was picking up was in. Her book is easy to read, her points easy to understand and the impact of what she fights for could be significant. Despite the caveats given, the tone is very much of women as powerless victims and men as all-powerful. This is a plain speaking guide on how she got into politics and how she handles all the shit now she is there. It is full of warmth and humour, filled with the loud and proud Brummie voice that Jess is so well known for.

We learn that it is only when a colleague at Woman’s Aid went to a Labour meeting and was uninspired by the candidates and her anger at the Conservative Party, that Phillips then decided to run as an MP, as she didn’t honestly see why she couldn’t. Launched in partnership with The National Lottery, it aims to promote dialogue and support Parliamentarians working to nurture a more connected society. She was elected in 2015 and the outspoken, straight-talking former Women’s Aid business development manager has rarely been out of the press since. But her logic is lacking (if you think that is sexism at work, work through her logic and try again) and the little things annoy me too, keen to show she was cool when younger and never apologising for 'being who she is', as though modifying your behaviour to your environment is always just being put in your place rather than making life more pleasant. Her pride in being ‘normal’ is something she wears as a badge of honour, celebrating her Brummy accent, determined to carry on speaking in her own voice because ‘if we don’t start sounding like the public, ordinary people will disengage and we’ll be left with the Establishment holding court and we can’t have that!Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), French Guiana, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.

I’m glad I took a nice picture of this one for the blog a few days ago, as it wouldn’t be right to use the usual TBR picture, given that it didn’t actually hit my TBR at all. And how did she make the writing so effortless it feels like we’re having a chat over a large Sauvignon? Read more Robert Webb 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.

She has worked with the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Communities and Local Government .

Despite seeing a very ugly side to people on a regular basis - she manages to maintain an underlying faith in people which is enviable and I only wish I could emulate.I do realise that most political autobiography is going to be biased and self-justifying to an extent, but I really feel she’s being honest here, and I did try to read it with a critical rather than fan’s eye. I would recommend this book to all women and to anyone who is interested in Jess Phillips; she shows that you can come from quite an ordinary place and go on to do quite remarkable things.

I've admired Jess for a while, just because it's not every day a woman from the midlands is on the TV, never mind as an MP.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. 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. This book is a mix of laugh out loud hilarious, make you cry unbelievable and shares some completely absurd statistics, like people in the UK donating more to donkey charities than to women's charities (no offence to donkeys, cute beans).