Misfits

A Personal Manifesto

By: Michaela Coel

Narrated by: Michaela Coel

From the brilliant mind of Michaela Coel, creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum, comes a passionate and inspired declaration against fitting in.

When invited to deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Michaela Coel touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class, and gender, but the person most significantly impacted was Coel herself. Building on her celebrated speech, Misfits immerses listeners in her vision through powerful allegory and deeply personal anecdotes - from her coming of age in London public housing to her discovery of theater and her love for storytelling. And she tells of her reckoning with trauma and metamorphosis into a champion for herself, inclusivity, and radical honesty.

With inspiring insight and wit, Coel lays bare her journey so far and invites us to reflect on our own. By embracing our differences, she says, we can transform our lives. An artist to her core, Coel holds up the path of the creative as an emblem of our need to regard one another with care and respect - and transparency.

Misfits is a triumphant call for honesty, empathy, and inclusion. Championing “misfits” everywhere, this timely, necessary audiobook is a rousing coming-to-power manifesto dedicated to anyone who has ever worried about fitting in.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

©2022 Michaela Coel (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

amazing!!

Amazing as always Michaela Coel, so many things I needed to hear. loved it!! I'm so thankful ❤️💥

Loved this

Michaela narrating this was perfect. Great story telling addressing pertinent issues at the same time.

Phenomenal listen.

Truly moved by Michaela’s transparency and truth. Her story is a must-listen. Exquisitely written, powerfully shared, (I say shared, not performed, because it feels as though you are listening to a dear friend, so natural and easy to listen to)

Grateful her voice exists in the world and she has been bold enough to raise it.

Thank you Ms. Coel

I love her tv work SO much. Hearing her speak about the process with such honesty is incredibly inspiring to me as a brown Muslim American woman who grew up low-income. I’m in the process of writing a weird misfit-y pilot for tv, and listening to this has kept me going, kept me honest in my own work. It’s reminded me that our stories are not only worth telling, but that they are sacred and must be protected, just as we are. What vulnerability this book/speech required. Thank you, Ms. Coel, for your guidance and bravery in sharing this part of your self with us. You’re Obama.

Inspiring and hopeful

I really enjoyed listening and learning from this book. The stories, along with the analogies kept me curious. The ending empowered me to look inward. Thank you!

Raw and artfully crafted

Michaela Cole is the definition of Tony Morrison's prophesy of the delicious writers to come. This short book tickled every taste bud and calmed my palate... Like any craving, I will be looking for more to come in this form, through telly, and with fingers tightly crossed kissed to my lips hand up to the sky, on stage.

Beautiful storytelling

A personal story told with authenticity, grace, power, humor, and honesty. The trials, tribulations, and glory of making it despite challenged, and listening to the inner whisper.

Unmatched!

Michaela is unmatched what a pleasure to listen to her read her manifesto on here.

She’s a genius

Couldn’t not recommend more! A nice quick 90 minutes. Definitely worth the listen. She’s a genius

First review

We are lucky to live in the same time space continuum with Michaela Coel. She brings the light.