Being Miss Nobody

What’s it about?

The story.

Rosalind is eleven and has selective mutism, an anxiety disorder that makes it impossible for her to speak to anyone outside her own family. Starting a new secondary school, she quickly becomes 'the weird girl who can't talk' and an easy target for bullies, and with her little brother seriously ill at home, she can't bear to add to her parents' worries. So Rosalind pours everything she cannot say into an anonymous blog, Miss Nobody, where at last she can be funny, fierce and heard. But as Miss Nobody grows popular, her words start to have real consequences, and Rosalind finds the line between standing up for herself and hurting others harder to hold than she imagined. Tamsin Winter writes with warmth, honesty and flashes of humour about anxiety, cyberbullying and the pressure of finding your place. Rosalind is an unforgettable narrator, and her story is both a gripping read and a genuinely useful window into an often-hidden condition, ideal for thoughtful readers making the jump to secondary school.