Confessions of a Forty-Something: The New Bridget Jones for Our Times
About this ebook
'The new Bridget Jones' – Telegraph
'Say hello to a book that will have you laughing with every page, whether you're 20, 40 or 80' – Heat
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. And who is desperately trying to figure it all out when everyone around them is making gluten-free brownies.
Meet Nell. Her life is a mess.
In a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a disaster. But when she starts a secret podcast and forms an unlikely friendship with Cricket, an eighty-something widow, things begin to change. Because Nell is determined. This time next year things will be very different. But first, she has a confession . . .
'Brilliant! Laughing out loud' – Emma Gannon, podcaster (Ctrl Alt Delete) and author of Olive
'Funny but layered, light-hearted but surprisingly deep' – Red
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About the author
Alexandra Potter is the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of numerous romantic comedy fiction novels in the UK, including So, I Met This Guy . . ., One Good Thing, Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up – one of the bestselling books of recent years and the basis of a major TV series – and More Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up. These titles have sold in over thirty territories and have achieved global sales approaching 2 million copies, making the bestseller charts across the world.
Yorkshire born and raised, Alexandra lived for several years in LA before settling in London with her Californian husband and their Bosnian rescue dog. 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.
