Chopsy: Resistance Tales of a Working-Class Woman - Softcover

Jordan, Maya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715656139 ISBN 13: 9780715656136

Publisher: September, 2026

Synopsis

'Funny as hell and full of fight. Maya’s voice is the real deal' Daisy May Cooper

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Chopsy is a memoir like no other – a gut-wrenchingly powerful, yet frequently funny account of a life spent defying the prejudice and inequality faced by working-class women. 

Maya Jordan’s ambition and resilience was born in the library and nourished by the Open University – through poverty, early motherhood, precarious housing, caring responsibilities and chronic disability – to a point where she finally seized her right to write.

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PRAISE FOR CHOPSY

'A triumphant success story about clearing a path for yourself and finding the freedom, words, and perhaps courage in mid-life to put pen to paper' Claire Malcolm, New Writing North

'Written with unflinching honesty, expansive humour and razor-sharp insight. A call to see and be seen, this is a memoir that will stay with me for a long time' Jenny Knight, author of Wild Moon Rising

'A curse on being ordinary! Wrong is not her name. Her name is Maya Jordan. She is a noisy woman and we should fear her' Michael Sheen

'If you’ve ever cringed at yet another wildly inaccurate representation of your working-class childhood... then you want to read this... Because while Maya’s story of her life is neither yours nor mine, there will be enough resonances for you to shout “YES, THIS!”, and in feeling seen and heard you will find some energy for today and maybe even tomorrow' Stella Duffy

About this title

About the Author

Maya Jordan was selected by A Writing Chance, a programme launched by actor and writer Michael Sheen with New Writing North, to support working-class and under-represented writers. Her work has been performed by Sheen for BBC Radio Wales’s Margins to Mainstream and was highlighted by him in a recent TEDx Talk Levelling the Cultural Playing Field.

Edition details

• Publisher: September
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715656139
• ISBN 13: 9780715656136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320