Nell Stevens

The funniest “WTF Am I Doing?!” story of the year-a novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be. Meet Nell. Her life is a mess. In a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f**k up. While she's desperately trying to figure it all out, everyone around her is making gluten-free brownies. But when she starts a secret podcast and forms an unlikely friendship with Cricket, an eighty-something widow, something unexpected happens-her life begins to change. Because Nell is determined. This time next year things will be very different. First, though, she has a confession... Full of laughter and a few tears, “Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up” is a novel for everyone who feels like they have no idea what they're doing (that is, all of us). Warm, witty, wise, it reminds us that we're not alone, we're all in this together.

There is no magical land you finally arrive at where everything is figured out, fixed and sorted. Life, like us, is a sum of moving parts, and if we're lucky, we get to keep f**king up, figuring it out and laughing in the face of it all. Nell's back. Her life still isn't going to plan. And she's still asking the big questions and getting none of the answers. Like, for example: 1. Why is falling in love so easy, but staying in love so hard? 2. What do you do when your friendships are put to the ultimate test? 3. Can we ever really live in the moment and leave the past behind? 4. When everything goes tits up, do you fall apart or jump on a plane to LA with Cricket (an eighty-something widow and your BFF)? 5. And when all else fails, will celebrity-scented candles, smashed avocados and Instagram filters save us?* In this hilarious, un-put-downable follow-up to the bestselling “Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up”, now the basis for the major TV series, “Not Dead Yet”, there are laugh-out-loud lessons to be learned, truths to be told, adventures to go on and joys to discover. But first, Nell has some more confessions...