Good afternoon,
 
We are working with a new client who we have just signed and wondered if their story/memoir might be of interest to you please? 

For decades, Carolyn Hobdey's personal life didn't quite match up to the success of her professional life. A senior and respected business leader in HR, she regularly smashed career goals, while her personal life consisted of love triangles, divorce (albeit amicable) following the discovery her husband of 15 years was gay, car crashes and a controlling and abusive partner. Carolyn's first book, All The Tw*ts I Met Along The Way, is a memoir about what happens when you so deeply believe something you were told as a child that it becomes he driving force behind almost every thought, feeling and action for the rest of your life - until you decide to take control and change your life entirely. Carolyn's story aims to inspire those who think they can't let the ‘perfect' or ‘successful' professional façade slip. Despite the heavy themes, Carolyn's personality fills the pages and it's a candid, humorous, at times heartbreakingly raw, story that many women are going to resonate with, laugh along with, sigh and cry with. It's a story of growing up, moving on, falling down and getting back up again. Transformation and acceptance, strength and resilience. There's a lot more info below about both the book and Carolyn.
 
Two years ago Carolyn started to get her life back on track and credits many things to her 'turnaround' including dancing and boxing. Carolyn trains in her local gym (she lives in Harrogate, Yorkshire) five times a week and boxes twice a week. High res photos of Carolyn boxing are available. 

We have digital copies (PDF) available and printed ARCs will be ready to send out in the next week. If you'd like to see a review copy before it comes out on Blue Monday (January 18 2021) or if you'd like to interview Carolyn or commission editorial, please get in touch. 

Thank you,

Helen Lewis

Director - Literally PR
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ADVANCE INFORMATION MEDIA SHEET

All The Tw*ts I Met Along The Way

By Carolyn Hobdey

What happens when you so deeply believe something you were told as a child that it becomes the driving force behind almost every thought, feeling and action for the rest of your life - until you decide to take complete control and change your life entirely? For decades, Carolyn Hobdey believed she was ‘trouble' and if she wasn't ‘nicer' she'd spend her days alone and unloved.

All The Tw*ts I Met Along The Waytells Carolyn's tales of crappy boyfriends, sickening sexual encounters, manipulative men, love triangles, unsupportive and unsupported medical diagnoses... and that's just in the first few pages. From porn-addicted boyfriends who go from fitties to owners of ‘dad bods,' to car crashes and boob jobs. Marriage to a lover who became more like a brother (and who came out as gay after their 15 year relationship) and later a relationship with a man and his ‘ready-made family' that exposes a damaging case of coercive control and narcissism. Carolyn's story exposes the unrelenting pull of the child-parent relationship - even in adulthood - and all the messiness, self-esteem issues and confusion that can cause. As she writes, "I didn't want to be the trouble-maker, the one to cause my parents concern, anymore."

"All The Tw*ts I Met Along The Way is Carolyn Hobdey's story that a million and one women are going to resonate with, laugh along with, sigh and cry with. It's a story of growing up, moving on, falling down and getting back up again. Transformation and acceptance, strength and resilience."

About the Author

Despite 20 years spent building a successful corporate career working for some of the world's largest employers, Carolyn Hobdey's personal life has been a mess. So she began to write about it. Carolyn's progressively more senior roles had earned her a seat at the boardroom table leading internationally recognisable brands where, whilst specialising in Human Resources, she was required to operate across all business disciplines. She supported her practical experience with a post-graduate qualification in HR at Leeds Metropolitan University, where she won the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (West Yorkshire) Student Award. Later followed a Masters in Lean Operations gained at Cardiff University where she was the first HR specialist in the 13 years of the course and became the winner of the inaugural Sir Julian Hodge Prize for Logistics, Operations & Manufacturing. Carolyn is now founder of MayDey Ltd.

Potential talking points

• Heartbreaking news that having children was not an option for Carolyn, who was told at 32 that she'd already gone through menopause. A shift in identity that came from the news and a realisation that her menopausal symptoms had started as young as 24.
• Using career promotions as a distraction from personal relationship and health problems.
• Discovering after 15 years of marriage that her husband is gay.
• Enduring her most miserable Christmas in history - torn between the ‘safe' comfort zone of a marriage more akin to a sibling relationship, and a steamy love affair with the (as it turns out rather narcissistic) boss at work.
• The reality of living in a domestic abuse situation with a narcissistic man you believe you're incapable of leaving.
• The difference between the strong, confident, successful working woman and the peacekeeping, fearful woman at home, trying to maintain harmony in the face of a partner's frightening rages.
• Homeless and jobless in the space of a day: how Carolyn's friendships saved the day.
• Dealing with a boss bully: work turned from being the happy, harmonious refuge away from home to a place of dread.

ESSENTIAL DETAILS

Title:All The Tw*ts I Met Along The Way

Author:Carolyn Hobdey

Genre:Memoir, Self-Help, Women

Publisher:Filament Publishing

Publication date:Blue Monday - January 18 2021

Availability:Paperback, eBook

Price:PB £14.99

ISBN:978 -913623-33-3

Page count:368

Press folder:bit.ly/ATTIMATW

Online profile:www.literallypr.com/public_relations/file/Carolyn-Hobdey.php

Connect online:

carolynhobdey.com

twitter.com/carolynhobdey

facebook.com/carolyn.hobdey

For more information, extracts, editorial opportunities, interview requests or review copies please get in touch withhelenlewis@literallypr.com