Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

#23 in Self-help

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Julie Smith

First published 2022Original language EN

7.67.6 / 10
Score out of 10132 ratingsConfidence 47%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#23 of 31 in Self-help ahead of 27% of the category
264
Pages
about 5 h
Reading time

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Our view

Practical and clearly organised, “Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?” is a guide to understanding one’s own feelings. The British clinical psychologist Julie Smith writes for general readers and covers a wide range of mental-health questions. Hopeful in tone, it suits anyone wanting a broad, usable map of the subject.

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About the book

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? is a mental health self-help book by Julie Smith, a British clinical psychologist.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.5 across 132 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Self-help average of 7.7. That is how 7.6 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library7.016 12%
Hardcover7.5116 88%

Frequently asked

How long is Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before??

It has 264 pages — shorter than 60% of the ranked books in Self-help.

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