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How can we communicate better across the generational divide?

When Rowan was sixteen, she experienced a mental-health breakdown. She and her mother, Christie, were barely speaking but they finally began to talk. Their conversations not only revealed the chasm between their generations, but also enabled Christie to really get to know her daughter – and in doing so, understand how she could help Rowan recover.

In an age of polarisation, this is a book about how a mother and daughter find humour in the things that divide them and with it a way to connect. Its bare honesty will have you laughing – and possibly crying – out loud as it shows that you are not alone.

'A mother-daughter guide to navigating a teenage mental-health crisis' THE TIMES
'It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly' BRYONY GORDON
'I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times' JULIA SAMUEL
'Full of heart that will help parents and their teenagers' DEREK OWUSU
'Incredibly brave, generous and important' CLOVER STROUD

© Christie Watson and Rowan Egberongbe 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Critics Review

No Filters takes on all those thorny subjects on which young, middle-aged and older people cannot always see eye to eye — race, sexuality, gender, class, politics, climate change… A much-needed conversation between generations
The Times
I devoured this joint memoir… it is a warm and brave look at some of the mental health pressures our teenagers are dealing with
The Times
[An] unflinching memoir
Observer
Strikingly honest… an eye-opening account of the mental health crisis gripping young people
Daily Mail
An insightful, if tough, read… This engaging book sheds light on the boggling number of mental health issues faced by today’s teenagers
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I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times. No Filters is psychologically astute, totally honest, and beautifully written
JULIA SAMUEL
No Filters is about what it means to be a teenage girl and what it means to parent them. It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly
BRYONY GORDON
An incredibly brave, generous and important book, which challenged my thinking about parenting, yet also consoled me and made me feel less alone. Parents everywhere will be pressing it into one another’s hands
CLOVER STROUD
Full of compassion, honesty, insight and hope... This is a small book full of heart that will help parents and their teenagers understand the need for patience and empathy in a world that seems determined to divide us from each other, even from those we were born to love
DEREK OWUSU
Compassionate, honest, insightful and in places absolutely hilarious
MARK HADDON
Author Christie Watson and Rowan Egberongbe
Narrator Christie Watson, Rowan Egberongbe
Duration 3 hours and 39 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529919158
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Age groups: adolescents, Coping with mental health issues, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Memoirs, Social and ethical issues, Teenagers: advice for parents
Availability AU, GB, IE

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