This Girl Is on Fire by Andrea McLean

This Girl Is on Fire is a personal account by Andrea McLean, described as a No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and an award-winning TV broadcaster. Writing with candour, she reflects on moving from trauma, toxic relationships and divorce towards empowerment, happiness and healing.

Addressed to anyone who feels they are simply getting through life rather than truly living, the book considers what happens when plans fall apart and the past is hard to leave behind. McLean draws on her experience of walking away from an abusive relationship, including the period when she maintained a brave face while overlooking the psychological impact of what she had been through, before deciding it was time to make a change.

Synopsis

Andrea McLean shares her journey to healing and sets out lessons on overcoming past trauma, breakdown and burnout. She centres on the choice to take control, whatever circumstances you have faced, and to shape a life defined by possibility and joy. The narrative also explores the search for what brings energy and purpose each day: what, in her words, “sets us on fire”.