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**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
'You can reinvent yourself, you can change, you can grow, you can regress, you can be any number of things at any particular time. Please give yourself permission to do that, and be equally as open-minded to others who choose to do the same. Because perhaps, with just a little more compassion and acceptance, we won't need to fit in to feel that we belong.'
Camilla Thurlow came second on Love Island in 2017. More recently, she impressed viewers in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. But that's not the most interesting part . . .
Camilla can do something that none of her fellow contestants can do: find, neutralise and destroy the landmines that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many people in the world's former war zones, and which make their land too dangerous to be worked.
This is at once a memoir of an extraordinary life, and a script for living one's life to the full. Camilla Thurlow is a highly independent woman whose thoughts and experiences will resonate with anyone seeking meaning in a world where women are too often discounted, or who frequently feel alienated amid the frenzy of contemporary life.
This is a book about courage - not just the courage to go out and deal with a lethal threat in some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable places, but the courage to confront one's own fears and anxieties, and to be oneself in what too often seems an inhospitable world.
Not the Type will inspire a whole generation to dare the seemingly impossible. Although often an engaging reflection on life, landmines and Love Island, this is also a book about learning to confront one's own anxieties in a world dominated by celebrity culture and social media - and on being a woman in what is still too often a man's world. Born and educated in Scotland, Camilla Thurlow left university determined to try to do something that would make a difference. At twenty-three she was accepted by The HALO Trust to train in explosive ordnance disposal - finding and clearing landmines in some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable places, including Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Cambodia. Seeking a new challenge, she was a contestant on Love Island 2017, coming second. In 2019 she appeared on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and the documentary What Camilla Did Next. She has volunteered through Indigo Volunteers in Greece and has visited Calais, Lebanon and Turkey with Choose Love/Help Refugees. You can follow Camilla on Instagram and Twitter. The Sunday Times bestseller.
The searingly honest memoir from reality star and activist Camilla Thurlow - Not the Type is a book about courage; not just the courage to go out and deal with a lethal threat in some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable places, but the courage to confront one's own fears and anxieties, and to be oneself in what too often seems an inhospitable world. · 'Your teenage daughter could do much worse than look up to Camilla Thurlow' - Sunday Times · Camilla Thurlow is highly promotable, and has been the subject of major features in The Times, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Times, Grazia, and others. · This title dovetails with the recent success of books such as Anne Helen Petersen's Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, Dolly Alderton's Everything I know About Love, Daisy Buchanan's The Sisterhood and Karen Karbo's In Praise of Difficult Women
'You can reinvent yourself, you can change, you can grow, you can regress, you can be any number of things at any particular time. Please give yourself permission to do that, and be equally as open-minded to others who choose to do the same. Because perhaps, with just a little more compassion and acceptance, we won't need to fit in to feel that we belong.'
Camilla Thurlow came second on Love Island in 2017. More recently, she impressed viewers in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. But that's not the most interesting part . . .
Camilla can do something that none of her fellow contestants can do: find, neutralise and destroy the landmines that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many people in the world's former war zones, and which make their land too dangerous to be worked.
This is at once a memoir of an extraordinary life, and a script for living one's life to the full. Camilla Thurlow is a highly independent woman whose thoughts and experiences will resonate with anyone seeking meaning in a world where women are too often discounted, or who frequently feel alienated amid the frenzy of contemporary life.
This is a book about courage - not just the courage to go out and deal with a lethal threat in some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable places, but the courage to confront one's own fears and anxieties, and to be oneself in what too often seems an inhospitable world.
Not the Type will inspire a whole generation to dare the seemingly impossible. Although often an engaging reflection on life, landmines and Love Island, this is also a book about learning to confront one's own anxieties in a world dominated by celebrity culture and social media - and on being a woman in what is still too often a man's world. Born and educated in Scotland, Camilla Thurlow left university determined to try to do something that would make a difference. At twenty-three she was accepted by The HALO Trust to train in explosive ordnance disposal - finding and clearing landmines in some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable places, including Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Cambodia. Seeking a new challenge, she was a contestant on Love Island 2017, coming second. In 2019 she appeared on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and the documentary What Camilla Did Next. She has volunteered through Indigo Volunteers in Greece and has visited Calais, Lebanon and Turkey with Choose Love/Help Refugees. You can follow Camilla on Instagram and Twitter. The Sunday Times bestseller.
The searingly honest memoir from reality star and activist Camilla Thurlow - Not the Type is a book about courage; not just the courage to go out and deal with a lethal threat in some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable places, but the courage to confront one's own fears and anxieties, and to be oneself in what too often seems an inhospitable world. · 'Your teenage daughter could do much worse than look up to Camilla Thurlow' - Sunday Times · Camilla Thurlow is highly promotable, and has been the subject of major features in The Times, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Times, Grazia, and others. · This title dovetails with the recent success of books such as Anne Helen Petersen's Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, Dolly Alderton's Everything I know About Love, Daisy Buchanan's The Sisterhood and Karen Karbo's In Praise of Difficult Women