Attention Seeker

Author: Amber Medland

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In ATTENTION SEEKER, Medland cuts through the noise online and reclaims the narrative of ADHD to uncover the reality of how ADHD affects individuals from early childhood to old age. Structured around three themes - Self, Society and the Attention Economy - the book moves from chapters on diagnosis, education, and the gendered experience of ADHD to chapters on family, employment, addiction and prisons.

The book closes with an inspiring anti-capitalist manifesto. Medland asks, in the current attention economy, what can the neurotypical reader learn from a life spent managing one's attention in radically different ways?

ATTENTION SEEKER will be the first book of its kind: a definitive text by a writer with ADHD, which unveils the truth about what it means to have ADHD in the UK today.

About the Author

Amber Medland is a writer based in Brixton. Her debut novel, WILD PETS, was published by Faber in 2021. She has been published in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Paris Review, the TLS, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the FT, the Irish Times and the Drift. She graduated from Cambridge University with a First in English Literature and a MPhil in American Literature, for which she was awarded two scholarships from Trinity College. Having moved to New York to study for an MFA at Columbia University, she was awarded a Teaching Fellowship and taught undergraduates non-fiction for two years.