• A myth-busting, powerful insight into life with Social Anxiety Disorder, which affects up to 10% of the population

• Reveals how SAD impacted one man's life, from his education and career to relationships and parenthood - and how through trial and error he learnt to cope

• The author has championed awareness of social anxiety through appearances on TV and radio shows such as C4's Steph's Packed Lunch with Steph McGovern and newspaper features.

Russell Norris is a writer. After battling social anxiety disorder for years, he became an executive at a leading advertising agency in London. He now runs his own copywriting business. He lives in south London with his family. This is his first non-fiction book.

'Empowering and cathartic' - Dr Tracy Cooper, International Consultant on High Sensitivity

'Deeply moving and informative' - Lily Bailey, author

As an adolescent, Russell's face and neck would turn crimson at the slightest thing. In his twenties he began suffering from an extreme form of blushing (idiopathic craniofacial erythema). It sent out all the wrong signals - to friends, family and to the opposite sex. And it triggered something worse: Social Anxiety Disorder.

Up to one in 10 people develop this irrational fear of other human beings. From university to the workplace, Russell desperately tried to hide his secret from everyone. In an attempt to be 'normal,' he grabbed every remedy going, from drugs to herbs to bottles of absinthe.

By turns wry and shocking, dark and optimistic, Redface is the eye-opening true story of one man's struggle with his mental health. And how he found his own way forward in a world built for others. It will fascinate readers who are socially anxious, their friends and family, and anyone who wants to know what it's like to travel to the edge of human experience and back.