Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home-educated on a council estate in Wolverhampton, believing that if she were very good and worked very hard, she might one day evolve into Bill Murray. She published a children''s novel, The Chronicles of Narmo , at the age of 16, and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has gone on to be named Columnist of the Year six times. At one point, she was also Interviewer and Critic of the Year - which is good going for someone who still regularly mistypes ''the'' as ''hte''. Her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman has been published in 28 countries, and won the British Book Awards'' Book of the Year 2011. Her two volumes of collected journalism, Moranthology and Moranifesto , were Sunday Times bestsellers, and her novel, How to Build a Girl , debuted at Number One, and is currently being adapted as a movie. She co-wrote two series of the Rose d''Or-winning Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves with her sister, Caroline. Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children, where she spends her time tweeting either about civil rights issues, or that picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 23, and has his top off. She would like to be remembered as ''a very sexual humanitarian''.

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Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home educated on a council estate in Woverhampton. She published her first novel at 16 and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has won Columnist of the Year seven times and has also been named Interviewer and Critic of the Year. Her million-selling groundbreaking feminist memoir How to be a Woman was voted one of the Sunday Times 'Most Important Books of the Twenty-First Century'.

Caitlin's other books have also been bestsellers and How to Build a Girl was made into a film with Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. Her Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves, co-written with her sister Caroline Moran, won a Rose d'Or for Best Sitcom. Her Who's Who entry lists her interests as 'cava, eyeliner, hair embiggening, and The Struggle'.

She lives in North London with her husband and two children, and, after following all her own advice, she really is hopeful now.

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'Happiness is a thing that must be done over and over and over again. Like laundry. And sex. It's not a thing you are - it's a thing you do.'

Not getting enough sleep, doomscrolling on your phone, and feeling acid anxiety every time you watch the news? You're not alone.

One morning, Caitlin Moran lay in bed and realised: she had finally reached Peak Despair. The point where, in books and movies, the heroine decides to move to a remote farmhouse, walk an ancient, 600-mile pathway, or adopt a baby hare. The moment where someone goes on a quest to find ... hope.

But this, this is not that kind of book. Caitlin tried - but it turns out remote Welsh farmhouses are really expensive. No-one with a job can walk 600 miles. And it's incredibly hard to get access to baby hares in Crouch End.

And so, Caitlin decides instead to go on a domestic quest. To see if you can stay in the same house, in the same neighbourhood, but feel better about the frantic modern world by trying to make better days. Leaving social media, eschewing 24/7 news for local newspapers, sitting on buses without headphones, and listening to what people are really saying. Picking litter, donating blood, rewilding a garden and, the hardest thing of all - learning to fall back in love with the world again.

Over the course of a year, Caitlin finds that life can be radically transformed when you rebel against the news cycle and algorithms that want to keep us angry, adrenalised, and anxious. You can't change the world - but you can change your days.

And, once you've changed your days, maybe you could change the world. Just a little bit.