Sian Prior

I always wanted to have children. The earth might be in trouble—overpopulated, descending into ecological crisis—but I was always sure my kids would help make the world a better place. I would be a green-feminist supermum, having it all. Nothing turned out the way I expected. Like many women, Sian Prior arrived at the point where she was ready to...

Sian Prior has maintained a career in the public eye, as a broadcaster and performer, for more than twenty years. For far longer than that, she has suffered from excruciating shyness. Eventually, after bolting from a party in a state of near-panic, she decides to investigate her condition. What is it—shyness? Where did hers come from? Why does it create...