You've felt it, even if you didn't have a name for it.

The pressure to smile through something hard. To manage everyone else's feelings before your own. To show up, smooth things over, and make it all look effortless. At home, at work, in every room you walk into.

Rose Hackman puts a name to all of it. In Emotional Labour, she traces the invisible, uncompensated work that women have long been expected to perform as a matter of course, and makes a compelling case for why it's time we all start seeing it clearly. This isn't a self-help book. It's a reckoning.

Sharp, deeply researched, and written with real urgency, it's the kind of book that changes the way you move through the world. And the conversations it starts? Even better.