Would you share your secrets with strangers?

The biggest story in publishing in the week that I am writing this – by far – is the furore over the authenticity or lack of it of The Salt Path. There are reports of legal cases being prepared, so I

WHILE A BLATANT L ACK OF SHAME HAS BEEN MOST PREVALENT IN POLITICS, IT’S NOW ON SHOW EVERYWHERE, FROM PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TO SUPER-RICH WEDDINGS. AS WE SOAK IT ALL UP, LOTTEJEFFS ASKS: ARE WE BECOMING TONE DEAF?

Life has a bad habit of mirroring art. Sometimes, this can be in a deeply sad way. A while after I wrote about the assumption of guilt in a traumatised young woman with poor social skills, I watched a

An extramarital affair, a crushing professional dismissal, a shoplifting compulsion. Cyan Turan explores the psychology of secret-keeping, plus 12 women reveal what they’ll never share out loud

How to navigate putting yourself out there, and being vulnerable about your mental health

Since the death of her partner, Rayya, in 2018, Elizabeth Gilbert has been on an extraordinary journey with grief and addiction. In her new memoir, she spares no-one, least of all herself, as she tells Christobel Hastings