Writer and editor of sister magazine, Beccy Hill got married just before she hit the big 3.0. You know that heavily documented age by which we should have ticked off numerous big life events and well, started acting like a grown-up, right?

After she was raped, Lucia Osborne-Crowley turned to alcohol to numb all the feelings that bubbled to the surface. She also found solace in the words of other women as she plucked books at random from her shelves. Until a kitten came into her life – and, so it turned out, saved it too

Following a flippant comment in group therapy, writer Chloe Lovell felt her entire identity unraveling. She’s black and mixed-race, but has often found her blackness called into question — not black enough, not white enough, too posh, too ghetto. Here she unpicks a lifetime of memories and the challenges she has faced…

After years of covering himself, pulling down his top if his torso became exposed, a t-shirt clinging to his skin in the swimming pool and drunken hookups in the dark, Oscar Easton let go of his shame, covered his self-harm scars with tattoos and learnt how to accept his naked body.