Not the Type: Finding my place in the real world

Camilla Thurlow came second on Love Island in 2017. More recently, she has impressed viewers in the latest series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. But that’s not the most interesting part…

Camilla can do something that none of her fellow contestants, and not even the ex-Special Forces directing staff on Celebrity SAS can do: find, neutralise and destroy the landmines that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many people in the world’s former war zones, and make their land unworkable.

This is at once a memoir of an extraordinary life, by a very remarkable young woman, and a script for living one’s life to the full. Camilla Thurlow is a highly independent spirit whose thoughts and experience will resonate with anyone seeking meaning in a world where women are too often discounted, or who frequently feel alienated amid the frenzy of contemporary life.

Not The Type will inspire a whole generation to dare the seemingly impossible. This is a book based in part on Camilla’s meetings with inspiring women who have helped shape her and taught her invaluable lessons. It is also a book about learning to confront one’s own anxieties in a world frequently dominated by celebrity culture, and about being a woman in what is, still, all too often a man’s world.