Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up: The Funniest WTF AM I DOING? Novel of the Year (Confessions, 1)

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It's New year's day and Nell is moving half way across the world back to London, her tail between her legs after a failed engagement and business.

I actually read the first look of this over on Readers First and thought it was such an uplifting and fun book; and I felt that way for perhaps the first half, but then i just began to feel very cliche and the ending was just really disappointing for me. But I decided to give Confessions of a Forty Something the benefit of the doubt and I started to read the Prologue. Jā, šis ir vieglais gabals, un sižets ir pozitīvs un paredzams, bet es tiešām pāris reizes iesmējos un sirds sažņaudzās vienubrīd, bet izrādījās, ka autore izvēlējās iet gludāko ceļu. Vėlgi, suvokiu, kad gal ne man kalbėti, bet skaitant erzino pastovus pagrindinės veikėjos požiūris į savo išvaizdą. Výborné sú aj pasáže kde sa rozoberá postavenie ženy a tlak spoločnosti na to, aby žena plnila rolu matky lebo to by mala byť jej “najvyššia ašpirácia”.Tiešām jauka grāmata, kas atgādina visiem zināmo, ka visiem mēdz sāpēt un tas, ka dzīve neizklāj paklāju uz tevis gribētās takas ir tikai normāli. je plný križovatiek, alternatív a rozhodnutí, a vyvíja sa na nás veľkž nátlak, aby sme robili tie správne. I also loved Nell's relationship with her family especially her father and that bit towards the end scared me to bits. Sú knihy, ktoré zaujmú a sú knihy, ktoré aj napriek ospevovaniu s vami nerezonujú… a život je predsa len kus krátky na čítanie niečoho čo vás nezaujíma či nebaví.

These titles have sold in twenty-five territories and achieved worldwide sales of more than one million copies (making the bestseller charts in the UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Serbia). Mums get brilliant TV series like ‘Motherland’ (which I’m considering watching for the 3rd time this lockdown).It is easy to feel sorry for Nell, but at the same time we want her to develop some resilience and inner strength to rise above it all. Or maybe, ‘you have to read this book’ when their childless friends to try to talk to them about their struggles. In her forties and feeling like a failure and so far removed from all these bullocky and unrealistic bloody hashtags, she is childless and feeling more than less than.

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.The main changes she suggested were to make my protagonist more likeable (she should use her time as a single woman to help her mum friends) and to make it a book that explores what is it to be a woman. I thought this was going to be a story about her finding herself and I was hoping the ending would follow suit but then it just felt like such a let-down for me. Following the poignant and relatable journey of a lead that you just can’t help but root for, we bear witness to Nell Stevens’ disaster movie of a life. Yeah, they patched up and everything but it was unfair to Nell and I was mad on her behalf I guess because Nell forgave too quickly.

But when she starts a secret podcast and forms an unlikely friendship with Cricket, an eighty-something widow, things begin to change. I had not heard of this author, and it was a 'stumble across' as I browsed an interstate catalogue (the perks of working in a library, and knowing where to look for the location of a book, Australia wide).This is the one book I’ve found which is supposed to be about women like me, only to find out that it isn’t.