Lagom snaps up Porter's guide for young women

Lagom, the health and wellbeing imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired an “indispensable” guide for young women, You Don’t Understand Me: The Young Woman’s Guide to Life by Dr Tara Porter. 

Publisher Margaret Stead acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Victoria Hobbs at A M Heath. You Don’t Understand Me is scheduled to be published in trade paperback, audio and e-book on 14th April 2022. 

Written “directly to girls and young women”, You Don’t Understand Me draws from Dr Porter’s experience to offer insight into the reader’s psychology. The publisher said: “From exams to friendship, from families to love Tara pulls together everything she has learnt to provide accessible explanations and suggestions for teenagers and young women everywhere.”  

Designed to be like a “warm letter from a wise friend or big sister”, the book “uniquely” addresses teenagers and young women whilst providing an “indispensable guide for their parents”.  

Dr Porter commented: “As a psychologist I have spent my professional life listening to teenage girls and young women and making sense of their experiences through the prism of psychological theory and research. I am thrilled to be able to share this knowledge in my first book."

Stead added: “You Don’t Understand Me is the book I wish I’d had as a teenager, and one that I am delighted my daughter and young women of her generation will have as an essential life tool. Tara’s book is warm, empathetic, kind and packed full of insight and advice.”