Dear Me: what would you say to your sixteen-year-old self?
If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say? In Dear Me: A Letter To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self, some of the world’s best loved personalities have written just such a letter.
The letters range from the compassionate to the shocking via hilarity and heartbreak, but the letters all have one thing in common: they offer a unique insight into the teenager who would grow up to be….
The book features Stephen Fry, Alan Carr, Annie Lennox, Paul O’Grady, Jackie Collins, Fay Weldon, Peter Kay, Debbie Harry, Brenda Blethyn, Jonathan Ross, Liz Smith, Will Young, Alison Moyet, Rosanne Cash, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Yoko Ono and Emma Thompson… to name but a few! And it’s all for a fantastic cause: the Elton John AIDS Foundation will receive £1 for every copy sold.
You can read Emma Thompson’s letter to herself here on Bookhugger – and read more of what the celebrities wrote, plus the letters of many other people, over at the website, www.dearmebooks.com. There’s also quite a conversation about it all happening on Twitter, using the hashtag #dearme.
