A Girl Behind Dark Glasses - Softcover

Taylor-Bearman, Jessica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1999805356 ISBN 13: 9781999805357

Publisher: Hashtag Press, 2026

Synopsis

Jessica Taylor-Bearman shares her innermost thoughts and real-time emotions, adapted from the diary she kept as a teenager growing up in southeast England. At just fifteen years old, instead of studying, socializing, and enjoying typical teenage life, Jessica became rapidly and devastatingly ill. She soon found herself bedridden, ultimately unable to move, speak, or eat.

Despite overwhelming odds, Jessica refused to give up. She dreamed of becoming an author, getting married, leaving the hospital, and helping others by founding her own charity. In July 2018, her first book, A Girl Behind Dark Glasses, was published by Hashtag Press.

Jessica has been nominated for a Pride of Britain Award, and her charity, Share A Star, continues to impact lives every day. She also appears in the Oscar-shortlisted, Sundance Award–winning documentary Unrest, directed by Jennifer Brea, which raises awareness about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.).

About this title

About the Author

Jessica Taylor-Bearman was born in March 1991, at Maidstone Hospital in England. She grew up in Rochester and Canterbury, Kent, where she attended Rochester Grammar School for Girls. At the age of 15, she became acutely unwell with an illness called M.E. She was continuously hospitalized from 2006 to 2010, suffering with the most severe form of the condition. This included her being bedridden, unable to move, speak, eat and more. She began to write in her mind, and when finally able to speak again, she began to write through her audio diary 'Bug'. In 2009,

Edition details

• Publisher: Hashtag Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999805356
• ISBN 13: 9781999805357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282