Chopsy: The Resistance Tales of a Working-Class Woman
£14.99
A funny, furious and rousing account of a life lived in triumphant opposition.
‘Funny as hell and full of fight. Maya’s voice is the real deal’
Daisy May Cooper
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Chopsy is a memoir like no other – a gut-wrenchingly powerful, yet frequently funny account of a life spent defying the prejudice and inequality faced by working-class women.
Maya Jordan’s ambition and resilience was born in the library and nourished by the Open University – through poverty, early motherhood, precarious housing, caring responsibilities and chronic disability – to a point where she finally seized her right to write.
‘Funny as hell and full of fight. Maya’s voice is the real deal’
Daisy May Cooper
‘Maya Jordan just doesn’t know her place… thank heaven for that. This book is bloody marvellous! A story for all of us “difficult” women. So much resonates with the lives of the women I’ve known and worked with, and my own too’
Linda Gask, author of Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change
‘A triumphant success story about clearing a path for yourself and finding the freedom, words, and perhaps courage in mid-life to put pen to paper’
Claire Malcolm, New Writing North
‘A curse on being ordinary! Wrong is not her name. Her name is Maya Jordan. She is a noisy woman and we should fear her’
Michael Sheen
‘If love and grief and despair and possibility all make sense to you – then you want to read this’
Stella Duffy, author of The Room of Lost Things
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