For decades, GK Kingsley was the woman who brought cheer to everyone else’s day. As a successful small business owner and regular voice on local BBC Radio, her illustrated poetry brand was built on providing pocket pick-me-ups for life’s challenges. But behind the scenes, she was walking on forty years of eggshells, managing everyone else's emotional ledgers.

Then, in her mid-forties, the walls closed in. Her relationship with her mother, her marriage, and her hormones didn't just collide… they detonated.

Realising a witty rhyming couplet wasn’t going to save her, GK made a radical choice to change her terms of engagement with life. Supported by an eccentric, soul-centred internal troop of monkeys, she broke free from the expectations of others. Lacing up her trainers, she threw two tricksy feet into the absolute hell of a 101-kilometre challenge to shed her ghosts, and began the messy, beautiful process of reclaiming her own mind… stitch by independent stitch.

Knit Your Own Monkey is a fiercely honest, darkly witty story of midlife survival and menopausal defiance. It is a triumphant reminder that no matter how corrupted your original blueprint is, you can always choose to build your own freedom..