More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up: The WTF AM I DOING NOW? Follow Up to the Runaway Bestseller (Confessions, 2)

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When you love a book, as I did with the first one, there's always a worry that a sequel won't live up to it. Yet people, especially her parents are worried that she hasn't married, had children, is not successful.

Although creating your own coffin… maybe I’d pass on that 😂 This sequel to Confessions of a forty-something f**k up did not disappoint! By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. And when all else fails, will celebrity-scented candles, smashed avocados and Instagram filters save us?

Whilst I'm aware this book is also a fiction and should be a fantasy, it really holds a mirror up to us as a society. I didn’t post a photo from the day at Saltburn-by-Sea when the sea fret was so thick we sat at the waterfront café, muffled up to the eyebrows, looking at a grey blur because we couldn’t actually see the water. The new Bridget Jones for our times' – Celia Walden, Telegraph'The story of Nell Stevens’ struggle through her imperfect, messy life doesn’t just make brilliant fiction, it’s turning into a cultural revolution! She is engaged to Edward, they are living together, and she has her trusted friendships, as well as her new best friend, Cricket, the octagenarian who she met in the first book. Life, like us, is a sum of moving parts, and if we're lucky, we get to keep f**king up and figuring it out and laughing in the face of it all.All in all, another book about life not living up to the expectations in our heads and often smashing them out of the park. I’ve done it myself: posted the photo of four smiling faces with a ‘what a lovely day with besties – and so lucky with the weather.

Nell continues to navigate her forties, feeling like a failure, mourning the life she left behind and trying to move forwards but something is holding her back and in this novel she has to face that. She explores this outdated idea of achieving life goals by a specific age, and turns it on its head, in part thanks to 80-something Cricket. I was worried I wouldn't remember what happened in the first one seeing as it has been over 2 years since I read it, but you're instantly thrown into it. Whilst sharing the flat with not only Edward and their dog, but also his two teenage sons, a surprise pregnancy test throws Nell's world into a spin. It gives new meaning to the Girl Guide motto: Be prepared - and provides good jumper storage, under the bed, in the meantime.With relationships tested, Nell learns that falling in love might be easy, but staying in love can be hard. but as the Prologue makes clear, this is ‘a book about a messy life in a world of perfect Instagram ones’ and I think we can all relate to that. We join Nell just after lockdown - which was surreal to read about - a time where everyone is getting back out there and seeing people again. So full *ahem* confession - I still hadn’t read the first book when I picked this up and assumed that because I’d watched the TV series based on it, I’d be good to go.

The novel was about Nell Stevens, who after losing her business and fiancé, moves from California back to London. Over the course of the novel, we met Nell navigating a post-lockdown world, dealing with her new stepfamily, and learning not to trust what you see on soc This is the first day I am going to look at my live as adventure and to think whatever I do I will get there in life, there is no correct way to do it . I doubt there are many who could answer in the affirmative but that’s what makes it such a big adventure. Mike Gayle, author of All The Lonely People Nell’s journey to mid-life happiness is hilarious, moving and filled with clear-eyed wisdom about what it means to be a woman of any age, proving that the best happy ever afters come when you fall in love with life.This audio edition is brilliantly and hilariously read by Sally Phillips, known for her performances in Bridget Jones's Diary and Smack the Pony . Yes, there were sad bits and that made me teary, but the pure hope running through the book is so moving too. But then something happened that no one expected, turning the world upside down in a way no one could have ever imagined. Confessions of a Forty-Something F*ck Up is perfect comfort reading for anyone who thinks life isn’t working out as they want it to, whether they’re forty, fourteen or eighty-four.