Why I wrote my first book
The Money Manual is out this week and someone asked me "why" so i thought i'd tell you.
The Money Manual comes out in 4 days.
But before that, I want to share something personal with you, why I wrote it.
You might know me as "that finance girl with the hair" on Instagram or the person who makes finance news a little more digestible every morning. But this book didn’t start with content ideas. It started with people.
It started with my frustration at how little was changing. Why were we still not teaching finance in schools? Why was financial education for adults a luxury, not a basic right? And why, despite everything, was our financial resilience getting worse? This wasn't the way things were supposed to be.
I’ve never been one to just sit back and follow the flow. When something’s wrong, I have to change it. Also, you all know me, and you know I’m so impatient with waiting for change.
Add to that the countless messages I’ve received:
Dave, 46, who reached out about inheritance tax because he was too afraid to ask his accountant, fearing he’d look silly.
The Year 12 girl who told me after a talk, "I took away, ‘never be afraid to ask for what you want’ she referenced knowing she wanted to study something different at university but felt like the field was too “masculine” so felt she couldn’t ask to switch.
Pete, 28, who emailed me saying, “why will no one help me, my payslip just doesn’t make sense” it might feel silly but it actually makes me so sad when i feel the despiration in peoples ’s messages.
Eve, who shared how a simple budgeting conversation changed her entire approach to money.
These are just a few of the people who told me they needed answers, and the answers weren’t easy to find.
The Money Manual is my attempt to change that.
It’s the book I wish I had when I was 16. But I wrote it for the adult who still doesn’t feel fully in control.
It’s split into five parts:
How to understand money
What financial institutions do
Your money, understanding payslips and self-employment
Managing your money
Growing your wealth through investing and pensions
It’s straight-talking, practical, and warm. Finance explained like a friend would explain it, no jargon, no judgment. Just the knowledge you need to make confident choices.
Because confidence with money doesn’t come from earning more.
It comes from understanding what your money is doing and where it’s going.
Want to learn more about what’s inside the book?
I’m running a free 30-minute webinar this Wednesday to walk you through it, with a live Q&A at the end.
Anyone can come. It’s my thank-you for supporting me.
📍 Wednesday 21 May
⏰ 7:30 AM (A recorded link will be sent out if you can’t make it)
🎟️ Sign up here [LINK]
I still can’t believe this is real. I wrote this book in coffee shops and taxis, between school talks and studio lights.
Some days, my hands were shaking and some days I played “power up” playlists and thought It was the easiest thing I’d ever done (someone told me once that’s how you know you’re onto a good thing).
And now it’s yours.
Thank you for being here. Let’s change the way we feel about money, together.
My dream is to see just one person on the train holding my book, weird but yeh.
Abi x
