Not the Type: Finding your place in the real world

About this book

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER You can reinvent yourself you can change you can grow you can regress you can be any number of things at any particular time. Please give yourself permission to do that and be equally as open-minded to others who choose to do the same. Because perhaps with just a little more compassion and acceptance we wont need to fit in to feel that we belong. Camilla Thurlow came second on Love Island in 2017. More recently she impressed viewers in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. But thats not the most interesting part . . . Camilla can do something that none of her fellow contestants can do: find neutralise and destroy the landmines that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many people in the worlds former war zones and which make their land too dangerous to be worked. This is at once a memoir of an extraordinary life and a script for living ones life to the full. Camilla Thurlow is a highly independent woman whose thoughts and experiences will resonate with anyone seeking meaning in a world where women are too often discounted or who frequently feel alienated amid the frenzy of contemporary life. This is a book about courage - not just the courage to go out and deal with a lethal threat in some of the worlds most dangerous and inhospitable places but the courage to confront ones own fears and anxieties and to be oneself in what too often seems an inhospitable world. Not the Type will inspire a whole generation to dare the seemingly impossible. Although often an engaging reflection on life landmines and Love Island this is also a book about learning to confront ones own anxieties in a world dominated by celebrity culture and social media - and on being a woman in what is still too often a mans world.