A powerful and ultimately hopeful exploration of teenage mental health from an important new voice.

Tweety is struggling.

Battling depression and faced with parents and friends who don't fully understand what's happening, sixteen-year-old Tweety feels like no one is listening and there's nowhere to turn to. Until she stumbles across Desi Girl Speaking, a podcast by someone else who's struggling too.

Through episodes and exchanged emails, Tweety and Desi Girl begin to confide in each other, but as Tweety's depression deepens, she'll have to decide whether to stay silenced or use her voice to speak up.

A powerful and compassionate novel about mental health and hope, for readers of Yasmin Rahman, Muhammad Khan and Danielle Jawando.

(TRIGGER WARNING: this book explores mental health, including discussion of depression, suicide and self-harm.)

"An enlightening story, an original and thought provoking teen and YA fiction book [...] Desi Girl Speaking is an edifying read that will hopefully start a conversation on how to approach psychiatry within different cultural communities. Well worth reading, speaking up about and discussing." - Armadillo Magazine

"An important story for anyone struggling with their mental health [...] realistic and hopeful." - The School Librarian