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Author: Forbat, Oenone

Memoirs

Published on 6 June 2024 by Quercus Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
129 x 198 x 18 | 164g

‘An ideal summer read’ EVENING STANDARD’Equal parts insightful and entertaining – whatever your take on influencers, Bad Influence is a great read’ YOMI ADEGOKEOenone didn’t set out to become an influencer. The word barely existed when she started posting on Instagram at university to document her ‘fitness journey’ after a toxic relationship came to a messy end.

In this humorous meditation on her digitized life, Oenone chronicles the pits and peaks of coming of age online. Grappling with modern-day issues on a public stage – from body image and personal boundaries to the limitations of online activism, Bad Influence examines what happens when your day-to-day reality becomes #content – and that #content pays your bills.

It asks: can you truly be authentic online? Can social media be a force for good? Is it necessarily bad for our mental health?Written with wit, warmth and honesty, this is a candid account of what it really means to be an influencer, from someone still figuring it out: the good, the bad and the instagrammable.

‘Warm, juicy, and eye-opening, like having a chat with a best friend’ ANNIE LORD’If ever a book captured the zeitgeist, this is it’ GRACE CAMPBELL’Funny, warm and brilliantly engaging’ LUCY VINE