From A to Be: This Is Not a Self-Help Book - I Guess It Is

By M. Maurice Hawkesworth

You are not a project.
You are the person the project keeps interrupting.

From A to Be is a self-help book that begins by questioning whether self-help books can help anyone-and then quietly discovers that one may have helped after all.

There are no seven-step systems here. No morning routine requiring twelve alarms, imported moss and a personal philosophy before breakfast. Instead, there are chairs, cups, windows, socks, sandwiches, abandoned versions of ourselves, meetings about meetings, thoughts pretending to be laws, and a body carrying the mind around while receiving very little credit.

With dry humour, rhythmic prose and an unusual tenderness toward human confusion, M. Maurice Hawkesworth explores overthinking, work, ageing, love, failure, grief and the exhausting demand to become a better version of yourself.

The book offers no transformation guarantee. It may, however, sit beside you while something less dramatic and more useful happens.

You brought the self.
The book brought the chair.
Between them, help may occur accidentally.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3692440308
• ISBN13: 9783692440309
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Wedgwood Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"