Year of Nothing: As heard on BBC Woman's Hour

Emma Gannon

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Year of Nothing: As heard on BBC Woman's Hour

Year of Nothing: As heard on BBC Woman's Hour

Emma Gannon

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Foreword by JULIA CAMERON, author of THE ARTIST'S WAY

After years of writing about work, wellness and productivity, Emma Gannon hit a wall: chronic burnout left her unable to get out of bed. Something had to change.

A Year of Nothing follows Emma's quiet rebellion against the cult of doing. Over four seasons, she steps away from the noise and rediscovers joy in life's simplest pleasures, from dog borrowing and dopamine dressing to relearning how to swim and embracing a child-free life.

This is a gentle, hopeful guide to what happens when you stop trying to fix everything and choose to feel instead.

Selected for The Observer Book Club and Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club

Critical Reviews

'Not sure I've ever needed a book more.'

Fearne Cotton

'A Year of Nothing is a memoir, focusing on time spent doing nothing following a period of burnout: joys of slowing down, the beauty of cold water swimming, the power of slow news - and learning to say "no".'

Radio Times

'Emma Gannon's honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness to be vulnerable lays out a path for her readers to follow.'

Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way

'This is an important book. To be talked about. Emma Gannon is wonderfully brave!'

Sophy Burnham, author of A Book of Angels and The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old

'The new bible for thirty- to forty-year-olds.'

ELLE Italy

'[Gannon] is determined to carry the lessons from her burnout, and her recovery, into a slower, more spacious life.'

BBC Culture

'You might imagine that escaping from your everyday life would involve relocating to a Hebridean croft or attending a series of rejuvenating retreats. But, according to Emma Gannon's new book project, A Year of Nothing, it could be as simple as staying at home.'

Guardian

'Gannon explores what she learnt from her "burnout buffer".'

ELLE UK

'A book showing us how to recharge in smaller ways when taking time out isn't always possible.'

BBC Woman's Hour

'A candid account of Gannon's descent into that year of profound loss of self, personal reckoning and reclamation.'

The Good Life Project Podcast

Publishing Information

Publisher: Whitefox Publishing Limited
Pub date: 2026-01-22
Length: 130 pages

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