A Lot Like Eve: Fashion, Faith and Fig-Leaves: A Memoir

A remarkable personal insight into female body image, spirituality and the defiance of cultural expectations.

Joanna Jepson was born with a facial deformity that led to her being mercilessly bullied through childhood and adolescence whilst a strict evangelical upbringing imposed further challenges. Reconstructive facial surgery and a religious meltdown left her unrecognizable and disorientated, and triggered a search for identity and belonging.

After ordination, a spell in the cloisters of a...