Penguin presents the audiobook release of What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We will Anyway) by Nimko Ali, browse by Nimko Ali and Amarah-Jae St Aubyn.

14 countries, 42 women, each with a tale no one has heard before.

What do you do when you’re living for the streets and on your own period? Exactly what does it feel just like to have a poo after you have given birth? Just how do we figure out how to love our anatomies again after they are abused? And, how do you know if you have ever actually orgasmed? We all have in what We’re Told Never to Talk About (But We will In any case): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia queries about our bodies but often women’s voices are silenced for being impolite or incorrect

What We’re Told Not To DISCUSS (But We’re Going To Anyway) can be an important, taboo-breaking book that provides voice towards the experiences of women from all walks of life, whose tales might not ordinarily be heard. Together with Nimko’s story of coping with FGM, rebuilding her relationship with her personal body and being truly a woman her own way, these are the true stories of real ladies who are writing the experiences they’ve always been told ought to be top secret and shameful.

The book is a call to arms for any women to reclaim the narrative around their bodies also to refuse to bow towards the taboos which keep us silent. There is absolutely no such issue as oversharing.

‘Hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time, Nimko offers blown apart all taboos, blown aside the echo chamber and included all ladies in the feminist conversation. Essential reading for everyone’ – Scarlett Curtis, author of Feminists Don’t Use Pink

‘Nimko’s book will shift the conversation around women’s physiques. Our bodies, and everything they actually, make us who we are’

Amika George, founder of Free Intervals Campaign.

‘Nimko says it how it really is. There is absolutely no subject too taboo on her behalf to tackle. We ought to all be discussing our vaginas and she is leading the method’

Bryony Gordon, writer of Mad Girl

‘Nimko Ali is my hero! She’s an anti-FGM activist and is responsible for changing laws throughout the world! She actually is also amusing and wonderful’

Zoe Sugg

‘Nimko Ali is heroine for our time, she destroys the idea of things being too rude to discuss’ Caitlin Moran, writer of How to Be a Woman