SELFIE

Fascinating Guardian Brilliant Evening Standard Electrifying Financial Times So interesting I literally couldn t put it down Sunday Times We are living in an age of heightened individualism Success is a personal responsibility Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim rich happy extroverted popular flawless The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are We have become self obsessed And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost Millions are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy It was not always like this To explain how we got here Will Storr takes us on a journey across continents and centuries Full of thrilling and unexpected connections between history psychology economics neuroscience and more Selfie is an unforgettable book that makes sense of who we have become