Harriet Gibsone

Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online is Harriet Gibsone’s first book and the launch of a razor-sharp, outrageously funny new voice. Out with Picador on May 25th 2023, Caitlin Moran has called it persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate and Bob Mortimer called it a delight.

A funny, raw and painfully honest account of trying to find connection in the age of the internet, Is This OK? explores growing up as a millennial woman in the era of the early internet. It’s also an exploration of a very modern obsession - parasocial relationships.

Harriet began her career as a music journalist in the 00s, writing for publications such as Q, NME, Time Out and Nylon. She was a Guardian staff writer and editor for eight years and now has a column for the Guardian Saturday magazine. Is This Ok? is her first book.