![]() Michaela Coel has felt like an outsider all her life. But many are also seen as outsiders because life looks at them differently. There is no doubt a lot of us can relate to this sentiment I know I certainly can. My friends were all misfits-a huge gang of commercially unattractive, beautiful misfits, who found the mainstream world unattractive". In just one of the quotes within it, she states: "What carried me through was the abundance of black girls, white girls, mixed girls-misfits. Inspired by her acclaimed and unflinching Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggert Lecture in 2018 in front of an audience 4,000 strong, Michaela Coel’s passionately argued and devastatingly articulate manifesto for greater transparency and radical honesty is a clarion call for speaking truth to power. Misfits is exactly my type of book a book for those who understand, celebrate and value individuality over conformity and a fantastic and much-needed, agenda-setting literary debut. ![]()
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