The Tell

Amy Griffin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Publishing:13th Mar '25

£18.99

This title is due to be published on 13th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Tell cover

‘For such a long time, people discussed my running. It took up so much space in my life. And yet nobody ever thought to ask:

What are you running from?’

For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from something – a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from something terrible in her past.

When her ten-year-old daughter confronts her on the distance between them, Amy is propelled to confront what she has spent a lifetime trying to escape. So begins Amy’s journey through the world of MDMA-assisted psychedelic therapy, to the limits of the judicial system, and ultimately, home to Texas, where her story began.

In her relentless search for the truth, Griffin scrutinises the pursuit of perfectionism, control, and maintaining appearances that drives so many women. She asks the question: When, in our path from girlhood to womanhood, did we learn to look outside ourselves for validation? And what kind of freedom is possible if we better protect girls from being taken advantage of on this journey. Heartbreaking, powerful and raw, The Tell points a way forward for all of us, shedding light on the courage and power of truth-telling that’s required to move through trauma.

Transformative and illuminating. Through every agonizing revelation, Amy Griffin refuses to pave over her pain, opting instead to embrace the entirety of it. This is a powerful story of what can happen self-compassion replaces fear as the governing force of one’s life. * Chanel Miller, Bestselling author of Know My Name *
The Tell is the most powerful memoir I’ve read in years. It’s the rare story that will liberate you from shame, empower you to stop cycles of abuse, and make it safer for you to tell the truth. * Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential *
Our minds may repress, but our bodies keep the score. The Tell by Amy Griffin is an honest book that will help us trust that wisdom. There is no better guide than Griffin, whose story proves it is what we do with our experience that matters. * Gloria Steinem *
Those of us lucky to know Amy Griffin know she's a lovely person in every way. Her courageous, generous memoir is both a reckoning with a terrible, all-too-common experience... and a searching and empathetic inquiry into the meanings of goodness, self-blame, and forgiveness. * Hanya Yanagihara [on Instagram], bestselling author of A Little Life *
An extraordinary memoir paced like an expertly plotted thriller . . . I will be thinking about this book for a long time. * JESSICA KNOLL , New York Times bestselling author of Bright Young Women *
I started The Tell while sitting in my car . . . and literally spent the morning in the parking lot because I couldn’t stop reading. Your own heart will break, and mend, as you read. * Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet, and host of the Quiet Life community *
Overflowing with heart and determination, The Tell is the story of the day-by-day, step-by-step, hard-won push through harrowing emotional terrain. Griffin shines a path forward through the dark. * Mariska Hargitay *
The Tell is a beautiful account of the journey of courage it takes to face the truth of one’s past, and the beneficial role that a combination of skillful therapy and psychedelics can play in putting one’s life in order. * Bessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score *
Amy Griffin has done something remarkable: She’s turned life-shattering trauma into a life-giving gift. The Tell is the most powerful memoir I’ve read in years. It’s the rare story that will liberate you from shame, empower you to stop cycles of abuse, and make it safer for you to tell the truth. It broke my heart and still left me filled with hope. * Adam Grant *
Overflowing with heart and determination, The Tell is the story of a journey—the day-by-day, step-by-step, hard-won push through harrowing emotional terrain. Here is someone moving steadily toward freedom and spreading so much light along the way. In finding the words to tell her story, in showing what it is to trust herself, Amy Griffin shines a path forward through the dark. * Mariska Hargitay *

ISBN: 9781529932706

Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 40mm

Weight: 500g

320 pages