What is the best book you’ve ever read?

For World Book Day, the Woman Alive team share their most loved books - from The Secret Garden to Redeeming Love

My favourite book is my own, Still Standing - 100 Lessons from an ‘Unsuccessful’ Life. It’s a very British thing to be coy about one’s own achievements but I went through a hellish time in my 20s when my baby died after birth followed by my then husband and best friend filing successfully for divorce, and I wrote this book in the aftermath before any kind of ‘Job redemption’. At the time, no one was talking about how to live life in the middle of the wilderness and I realised that many Christians had leaned into the narrative that when everything was better, they would start living again and give God praise for the desired outcome. But as the years went on and nothing changed for me - no new husband, no baby - I wondered, did we really think God was only good when things were “good”?