I'll Let Myself In

Breaking down doors, claiming space and finding your wheels

Hannah Diviney

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Allen & Unwin
12 September 2023

Memoirs; Disability: social aspects; Biography - Australian

When it occurred to me that the only real books I'd ever read with disabled characters in them were specialty books, displayed and designed exclusively for therapy settings, some of the hollowness I'd learnt to live with started making sense. Hannah Diviney has always known that her experience of the world was fundamentally different from those around her. While her friends went to soccer and dance and Little Athletics, Hannah was going to physio and doctors' appointments. While her friends got jobs, fell in love and went clubbing, Hannah surrounded herself with the fantastical worlds she found in books. But books where people like her were nowhere to be found.

Refusing to accept the narratives, or lack thereof, that she'd been given, Hannah was determined to forge her own path in a world that wasn't designed for her, and to be the representation she'd always wanted to see.

Both deeply personal and yet utterly relatable, I'll Let Myself In is a young woman's battle-cry over the voices who try to tell her who she can and can't be, and a reminder not to wait to be invited to the table but to break the door down and demand to be heard.

'Brilliant, bright, defiant, moving, contagious. Hannah's flame leaps from the page straight into your soul. May it spread like a brushfire. This book is the proof point that disability does not mean deficit.' - Grace Tame

'Hannah is here to change the world. Let's get out of her way.' - Zo Foster Blake

'A magnificent book from our very own Hannah Diviney. A deeply insightful coming of age story with a genuinely remarkable woman at its heart. I loved it. Well done Hannah!' - Turia Pitt

By: Hannah Diviney
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9781761069710
ISBN 10: 1761069713
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 12 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hannah Diviney is a leading writer, disability and women's rights advocate in Sydney, Australia. She began her career at Mumamia at the age of 15 and since then has become the co-founder and Editor and Chief of Missing Perspectives. She is also the face of the global campaign for a Disabled Disney Princess and is the woman who called out Lizzo for using an ableist slur. She also plays the female lead in the SBS TV Series Latecomers. I'll Let Myself In is her first book.

Reviews for I'll Let Myself In: Breaking down doors, claiming space and finding your wheels

'Brilliant, bright, defiant, moving, contagious. Hannah's flame leaps from the page straight into your soul. May it spread like a brushfire. This book is the proof point that disability does not mean deficit.' - Grace Tame 'Hannah is here to change the world. Let's get out of her way.' - Zo Foster Blake 'I adored this powerful story of a disabled life, painted with all the colours that only lived experience can provide. Hannah writes with such warmth, humour, and grace, and her voice is so important.' - Kay Kerr, author of Love & Autism 'A brilliant, heartbreaking account of living with - and thriving in spite of - one's disability. Witty, frank and totally fresh, Diviney's is an often-unheard voice that will capture your imagination, while inspiring you to think more critically about the true meaning of inclusivity.'- Jonathan Seidler, author of It's A Shame About Ray 'Hannah is an incredible storyteller and man, she can WRITE. Wow.' Tanya Hennessy, author of Am I Doing This Right?and Help Self