A review by adamskiboy528491
What It Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees

4.0

What It Feels Like For A Girl by Paris Lees is an original and surprising memoir that focuses on hot topics within our current society. Lees leads you on a beautiful path of discovery and understanding of how life can unfold.

Lees was born in Hucknall in Nottinghamshire to a family with often tricky dynamics, and her memoir is about her teenage years, reckless rebellions and close friendships, and her first moments of living as a girl. Entirely written in an East Midlands dialect, she must have wrestled the spellcheck function to the floor to type the manuscript.

You get to feel/see her growth and change throughout the book as coming from a Hucknall council estate in the early 2000s; someone isn’t going to be aware of right/wrong in some situations. Her acknowledgement of this and active change due to these incidents and a candid account are very raw and honest to see.