A Girl in One Room

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the number one best-selling, prize-winning true story - A Girl Behind Dark Glasses - Jessica Taylor Bearman’s story continues and needs to be heard, as the battle against the M.E. Monster rages war against the millions of people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis around the world. What came next for Jessica, who spent her four years growing from a teen to young adult in a hospital bed? So many unexpected things - from the heartbreaking to the positively incredible - have happened to author, wife, now mum, Jessica, since A Girl Behind Dark Glasses was published in 2018. The popularity of her blog, The World of One Room, has reached epic proportions, she’s celebrated her first wedding anniversary with new husband Samuel, and given birth to a beautiful baby girl called Felicity. Jessica’s charity work at Share A Star has helped so many people. And her debut book, which boasts bestseller status, has truly made its mark, opening up the conversation about M.E. and raising awareness about this much misunderstood illness. In July 2020, it even won the Non-Fiction Award in The People’s Book Prize 2020! Now, it’s time for the next chapter in Jessica’s journey...

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 hospitalised 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,