Publication Date: May 1, 2022
THE BASIS OF FORTHCOMING ABC SITCOMÂ NOT DEAD YET
Nell Stevens’ life is a mess.
When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell’s happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London 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 stranger’s 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 80-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.
A book for anyone who’s ever worried life isn’t going to plan, Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up by Alexandra Potter will make you laugh and it might even make you cry. But most importantly, it will remind you that you’re not alone, because we’re all in this together.
Time to fall in love with your life.
Nell Stevens thought she had her life planned out, but with a failed relationship in California, she heads back to London for a fresh start.
It turns out that her friends have all gotten married and had children, which serves as a painful reminder that Nell hasn’t made a dent in her bucket list. Author Alexandra Potter shares Nell’s adventures in Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up.
This incredibly witty storyline focuses on the debut of Nell’s podcast, in which she confesses her woes at being over 40 with unfulfilled dreams. Nell’s character is refreshingly blunt about her experiences, which leads to a number of humorous moments.
Each podcast ends with Nell making a list of things she’s grateful for. As her character evolves and interacts with others, she gets to a much better point in life where she can embrace the aging process.
Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up delivers a main character who is unafraid to poke fun at herself and her circumstances. Once she changes her perspective thanks to secondary characters, starting over doesn’t seem so bad.
Yorkshire born and raised, Alexandra Potter lived for several years in Los Angeles before settling in London. As a bestselling author of romantic comedies, she has won a 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 into nature, trying not to look at her phone, and navigating this thing called mid-life.
