About the book
Paper Girls Burn
A Borderline Personality Disorder Memoir
To be released on September 18, 2026, in Canada and in February 2027 in the United States.
A lyrical confession of searching for love and understanding while living with borderline personality disorder
Paper Girls Burn is a courageous, candid, and darkly comic memoir about the search for love, understanding, and identity through a neurodivergent lens. From a young age, Pippa Scott was made to feel damaged for simply being different. A highly sensitive child prone to emotional outbursts, she was sent away to a rigid British boarding school. Instead of taming her, the experience of abandonment and isolation intensified her longing for acceptance and comfort.
Set amidst the changing eras from the 1980s to the 21st century, Paper Girls Burn follows Scott as she becomes a young woman and increasingly turns to sex with sometimes cruel, occasionally dangerous men. Beyond her countless one-night stands, she becomes obsessed with men who reject her and chases belonging while she hooks up with a rock star in London, trains to dazzle on Broadway, works for jaded film execs in LA and probes the depths of Vancouver’s drag world.
At age thirty-five, Scott finds answers through a comprehensive diagnosis: borderline personality disorder with ADHD, OCD, PTSD, and depression. From there, she begins her journey towards healing and inner peace.
More than one woman’s story, this memoir offers reassurance to anyone who has been made to feel damaged for simply being different and yearning to be loved.
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“How uniquely capable are those who once claimed to love us of destroying us instead.”
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“Los Angeles was like a fuckboy, luring broken women in with fake promises of potential, only to ghost them after revealing his true vapidness.”
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“The happy masks others managed to fasten on when they felt sad did not seem to come in my size.”