Jordan Stephens is a writer and performer, best known as one half of the chart-topping duo Rizzle Kicks, who sold over a million records. Having been publicly open with his own struggles surrounding mental health, Jordan has been very active in creating awareness around the stigma. His mental health campaign #IAMWHOLE reached over 120 million people online and was mentioned in the Houses of Parliament. His children’s book The Missing Piece was recently shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Prize.

His radically candid memoir, Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs, explores masculinity, mental health, addiction and heartbreak. Diagnosed with ADHD as a child, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties to be a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations and his world exploded, he allowed himself to explore the pain he’d repressed his entire life.

Unsparingly digging into the fear, tenderness and trauma, Jordan Stephens discovers what it means to be a modern man and how the price we pay for love, in all its forms, is worth it.