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Davina McCall penned the publication with Dr Naomi Potter
By Emma Petrie
arts and civilization reporter
A publication astir the menopause by TV presenter Davina McCall has scooped the apical prize astatine the British Book Awards.
Menopausing, by McCall and Dr Naomi Potter, was named wide publication of the year.
The alleged "Davina effect" saw a immense summation successful request for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) aft a Channel 4 documentary connected the subject.
Novelist Sir Salman Rushdie was besides honoured, 9 months aft being attacked connected signifier successful New York.
McCall and Potter's Menopausing was praised by a sheet of judges which included Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy, broadcaster Anita Rani, and DJ Vick Hope.
Six months aft publication, it continues to fertile highly successful the bestseller charts.
Guru-Murthy said the publication had helped to commencement a nationalist speech astir menopause.
He said the broadcaster and the menopause doc had produced an authoritative and entertaining publication astir "an important and ignored subject".
Long Lost Family presenter McCall has antecedently said she though she had a encephalon tumour oregon Alzheimer's erstwhile suffering from perimenopausal symptoms.
Her acquisition with her changing hormones led her to the determination to run to summation consciousness and destigmatise the menopause.
Her Channel 4 documentary Sex, Myths and Menopause was broadcast successful 2021 and Menopausing was published successful September 2022.
HRT prescriptions roseate by 42% successful the past twelvemonth starring to shortages owed to deficiency of supplies.
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Image caption,Salman Rushdie says it is present hard to people successful countries of the west
Meanwhile, Sir Salman Rushdie said helium was arrogant to person the Freedom to Publish grant connected behalf of "everybody warring that fight".
The award-winning writer mislaid the imaginativeness successful 1 oculus and spent six weeks successful infirmary aft being attacked connected signifier up of a code successful New York successful August 2022.
He has agelong faced decease threats for his 1988 caller The Satanic Verses.
In his acceptance speech, helium said: "We unrecorded successful a moment, I think, astatine which state of expression, state to people has not successful my beingness been nether specified menace successful the countries of the West."
The writer said the state to people was besides the state to work what you privation without it being decided for you externally.
Rushdie voiced interest astir the nonaccomplishment of libraries and books for children successful schools.
He described it arsenic an "extraordinary attack" and added: "It is rather remarkably alarming, and we request to beryllium precise alert of it, and to combat against it precise hard."
He besides warned publishers against altering the enactment of authors similar Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming. He said they should defy that and let books "to travel to america from their clip and beryllium of their time."
Philip Jones, exertion of The Bookseller and seat of the judging sheet said publishers had played a relation successful creating conversations astir "mental health, misogyny, sexuality and gender, the menopause and more".
Others who were recognised astatine the awards, which were held successful London connected Monday evening, include:
- Bonnie Garmus, who wrote her debut caller Lessons successful Chemistry erstwhile she was 64, was named writer of the year
- Richard E Grant, whose memoir A Pocketful of Happiness won the audiobook non-fiction award
- Alice Oseman, the creator of the Heartstopper graphic novels which inspired the Netflix series, was named illustrator of the twelvemonth
- RF Kuang won fabrication publication of the twelvemonth for her breakout occurrence Babel
- SF Said for Tyger, Dr Alex George for A Better Day, Sheena Patel for I'm a Fan, and Louise Kennedy for Trespasses
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