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Profile Books scoops Heritage's 'self-deprecating' guide to being bald
Profile Books has scooped Guardian writer and columnist Stuart Heritage’s "warm and funny" guide to being bald.
Managing director Rebecca Gray and editorial assistant Zara Sehr Ashraf acquired world all-language rights, including e-book and audiobook, to Bald: How I Slowly Learned to Not Hate Having No Hair (And You Can Too) from Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton. Profile Books will publish Bald as a hardback and e-book on 24th April 2024.
"Nobody wants to look into the mirror and be confronted with an absence," the synopsis says. "Nobody gains any comfort from having a slightly better idea of what their skull looks like. Stuart Heritage has been bald for two years […] part-memoir-part-manual, Stuart brings us a self-deprecating, funny and genuinely helpful guide to being bald: what really happens, why it matters and how to feel much less crap about it."
Ashraf said: "Stuart Heritage has endeared himself to the nation through his observations on everyday life and modern masculinity, and we’re very happy to be working with him again to take that conversation even further with Bald. Now turning his trademark wit and insight to what can be one of the most traumatic phases of a person’s life – and one that nobody ever seems to talk about – Stuart will once again have readers of all hairlines nodding in acknowledgement and laughing all the way through. Sharing his guide to life in the club that nobody seems to want to join, this book is a friendly arm around the shoulder from a man who has been there and lost it all."
Heritage commented: "The idea for Bald came about in the middle of a tantrum, after I became unreasonably angry at the state of my own reflection. Which makes sense, because baldness is a huge psychological obstacle to overcome. But through writing the book, by talking to some genuinely inspirational people and by working with the marvellous Profile team, my attitude to baldness has now softened a little. There’s a lot less anger and a lot more acceptance."
