CONFESSIONS Of A FORTY SOMETHING F##K UP BY ALEXANDER POTTER
HARDBACK PUBLISHED BY PAN MACMILLAN 31ST DECEMBER 2020
I’m greatful for :
1 . Failing at my career,
Otherwise I wouldn’t have met my wonderful friend, Cricket.
2 . Failing at home – ownership,
Otherwise I wouldn’t have met my beloved dog Arthur.
3 . Failing at my relationship,
Otherwise I wouldn’t be enjoying the fun of online dating.
4 . My sense of irony.
Nell Stephen’s life is a mess.
When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, her happy-ever-after life in California falls apart. Broke, single and forty-something she moves back to England to start over, but a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rents force her to rent a room in a strangers house, and in a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f*ck up. Even worse, a forty-something f*ck up.
But when she lands a job writing obituaries, Nell meets the fabulous Cricket, an eighty- something widow with challenges of her own, and they strike up an unlikely friendship. Together they begin to help each other heal their aching hearts, cope with the loss of the lives they had planned, and push each other into new adventures and unexpected joys.
Because Nell is determined. Next year, things are going to be very different. It’s time to turn her life around.
MY REVIEW
Confessions of a forty something f##k up is a book for anyone who’s ever worried life isn’t going to plan, this book will make you laugh and it may make you cry. But most importantly, it will remind you that you’re not alone, because we’re all in this together.
There’s some hilarious sentences, one of my favourite lines that made me laugh out loud, was found on page 11, Don’t worry, I put the seat down that’s one of the rules.
HERE IT IS PART OF PAGE 11
I’d been hoping for something more in town and with less married children, but it was available and I could afford it. Plus, when I went round to see it the room looked even larger in than in the photos, and it had a little balcony. There was just one catch.
‘ And so this is the bathroom.’
Having just finished showing me the bedroom, Edward, the owner of the flat and my prospective landlord, paused by the bathroom door.
‘ Shared ?’
‘ Don’t worry, I put the seat down – that’s one of the rules,’ he joked, opening the door and pulling the light cord.
At least, I thought he was joking. Until I spied his tooth brush in the cup by the sink and my heart sank.
‘ Ok, great,’ I tried not to think of my ensuite back in California. This was going to be fun, remember. It was going to be like Friends, only we were in our forties and I looked nothing like Jennifer Aniston. I forced a bright smile. I could do this.
‘ So do you have any questions ? ‘
Edward looked older than me, with dark wavy hair that was greying at his temples and square-framed glasses, but I had a sneaking suspicion he was about my age. This keeps happening to me now. It’s the weirdest thing. I read articles about middle age people as if they’re my parents or something, and then I suddenly realize – hang on, we’re the same age ! But how can this be ? I don’t look anything like that. At least I don’t think I do.
Do I ?
‘ Um. . . any other rules ?’ I joked weakly as I followed him back through to the kitchen.
‘ Yes I’ve printed them out for you to have a look through. . .
I would like to say a huge thank you to Pan Macmillan for sending me the hardback to read and review.
ABOUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER POTTER
Alexander Potter is Yorkshire born and raised. Alexander lived for several years in LA before settling in London with her Californian husband and their Bosnian rescue dog. As a bestselling author of romantic comedies she has won the Best New Fiction Award at the Jane Austen Regency World Awards and been shortlisted for the Romantic Novel Awards. When she’s not writing or travelling she’s getting out into nature, trying not to look at her phone and navigating this thing called mid-life.
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