A daring, provocative manifesto on what it means for women to be ‘good’ – and what happens when we stop.

‘A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live’ LISA TADDEO

Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called ‘deadly sins’, have been used by the patriarchy to control women and keep them small throughout our history.

What would happen if we stopped trying to be ‘good’?

In On Our Best Behaviour, Elise Loehnen looks at the ways in which women find ourselves complicit in denying ourselves a full existence for fear of crossing some sort of line – of wanting too much, being too much, falsely equating ‘self-control’ with goodness. In this process of self-betrayal, she finds, we have also betrayed each other.

On Our Best Behaviour is a bold and daring denouncement of that which has been used to condemn ‘badly behaving’ women.