I could relate to her feelings in school when she was being bullied as I was bullied myself for the same reasons. Being a socially anxious person myself, I could completely relate to Rosalind’s thoughts and feelings, how at times the words are just sitting at the tip of your tongue but you cannot get them out as they just won’t come out due to anxiety and you play all sorts of scenarios in your head where what would happen in case the words did come out.

I am awed at Tamsin Winter’s ability that how convincingly she has developed the character of Rosalind. Motivated by this, she starts a blog titled Miss Nobody which speaks up against bullying but things go haywire as through the blog she starts becoming a bully herself. Her parents take her to a new therapist who advises her to write her feelings and gifts her a journal. Due to this condition she is bullied and made fun of at school. In her case she could speak only in front of her father, mother, brother and a neighbour by the name of Mrs. It’s a pshycological condition in which a person can only speak up in front of some people. The plot revolves around the main protagonist Rosalind who is a girl affected with selective autism. However let’s see in how many ways this book was able to surprise me. Anyways when I started reading it I wasn’t expecting it to be this interesting as it’s a young adult novel and I am way past that age. Now you can see why the blurb of this book attracted me.

After that the road to making friends became easier. However I stuck to my goal and by the end of the year was able to make two friends. This was a huge task for me as it was extremely hard for me to initiate a conversation. When I moved to a new country in 7th grade, I made an aim to make at least one friend.

Does not participate in class at all.”įor this reason, I never had any friends in school until 6th grade. I still remember my very first report card had these words written on it, “Extremely shy. I have struggled with shyness and social anxiety since childhood. My reason for ordering Miss Nobody was the blurb. If you live in Pakistan, you can get both these books from the Liberty Books Pakistan on the links given below: All I have to do in return is to do a book review on my blog so Being Miss Nobody by Tamsin Winter and After The Fire by Will Hill were my first orders from Usborne. Being an official blogger for Usborne means that I can order a copy of any to be published book a few months before its release (yes they email me a list of their upcoming books every month) and that too for free (yayyy!).

Perhaps one of the best highlights of my blogging journey is being selected as an official blogger for Usborne books UK.